Official Statistics

Unpaid Work Management Information

Management information for Unpaid Work including starts, delivery, caseloads, terminations, and the Project Clean Streets pilot, April 2022 to December 2023.

• From: Ministry of Justice
• Published: 16 May 2024

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

Unpaid Work Management Information Main Points

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Unpaid Work Management Information Release Guidance

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Unpaid Work Tables

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Unpaid Work Project Clean Streets Tables

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Details

Unpaid work, also known as community payback (or colloquially as community service) is one of the options available to sentencers at court. Individuals can be sentenced to undertake between 40 hours and 300 hours of unpaid work which should be completed in 12 months from sentencing. 

The main purpose of unpaid work is to provide punishment and reparation, with individuals carrying out work on projects which benefit their local communities.

Pre-release access

The bulletin was produced and handled by the ministry’s analytical professionals and production staff. For the bulletin pre-release access of up to 24 hours is granted to the following persons:

Ministry of Justice:

Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor; Minister of State (Prisons and Probation); Permanent Secretary; Director General Performance, Strategy and Analysis Group; Press Office x4; Head of HMPPS Performance, Prison, Probation and Reoffending data and statistics; Deputy Director, Prison, Probation and Reoffending data and statistics; Head of Community Performance; Senior Probation Performance Analyst x2; Probation Performance Analyst; Assistant Economist

HM Prison and Probation Service:

Deputy Director, Sentence Management and Unpaid Work; HMPPS Director General Operations; Chief Probation Officer; HMPPS Director General CEO

Published 16 May 2024