Community payback order placements taking more than 2 months start: FOI release

Information requested

 

A breakdown of the time delay between the imposition and start of community payback order work placements for the year 2017-18 and also the longest single delay in starting a work placement.

 

Response

 

The information is shown in the table below:

Time between imposition of order and start of work placement (number of orders):
Over 2 months – 3 months	265
Over 3 months – 4 months	149
Over 4 months – 5 months	133
Over 5 months – 6 months	103
Over 6 months – 7 months	45
Over 7 months – 8 months	44
Over 8 months – 9 months	47
Over 9 months – 10 months	21
Over 10 months – 11 months	12
Over 11 months – 12 months	7
Over 12 months	7
Longest length between order imposition and start of placement (days)	469

 

Overall, there were 17,834 community payback orders imposed in the year 2017-18, with 75% of those having an unpaid work requirement. We know that 93% of those with an unpaid work requirement started within two months of being imposed, while the most common reason for the longer delays (those beyond nine months) was because the individual was already serving another community sentence.

 

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