Member

Therefore, it is not necessary for the Secretary of State to require offenders to complete a minimum proportion of these days. For example, someone could be sentenced to a two-year community order that includes a probation requirement, unpaid work and a treatment. Probation will undertake an assessment up front to determine how much rehabilitation activity is needed under the probation requirement. This will be set out in a sentence plan alongside all other objectives. Only once the offender has completed all of these and there is nothing more to deliver will the order end. This means that offenders are incentivised to comply with probation and show good behaviour. But if they do not follow the rules, offenders will serve their sentence in full. I also highlight that suspended sentence orders will continue, and it is only the supervision period that can end early.