- About your sentence:
The Court has sentenced you to either a Suspended Sentence Order or a Community Order with one requirement being the Supervision Requirement. The Attendance Centre wil be at a place in the community and would usually be run on a Saturday You will have to go to the centre regularly and the Court will have ordered you to attend for between twelve and thirty six hours in total but you will not have to attend for more than three hours a day. You may have other requirements as part of an Order (i.e. Supervision) or this requirement may stand alone.
- Your 'Responsible Officer' will:
- Explain your sentence to you and make it clear that you must attend the specified centre
- Explain what will happen to you if you fail to adhere to this requirement
- Review your progress and assist you in completing the sentence sucessfully.
- Treat you fairly and with respect
- What you should do:
- Adhere to the Attendance Centre requirement
- Make sure that you understand what is expected of you, and ask questions if you do not know
- Demonstrate respect to those Probation staff you come into contact with, and others you meet during your sentence.
- Inform Probation staff if there are changes to your circumstances; i.e. your address of telephone number.
- If you are having problems with your sentence tell the Probation Staff.
- If you are taken back to Court, the Court may:
- Make you do more requirements.
- Make you do different requirements
- Make this requirement or other requirements you are already doing more onerous.
- Send you to prison
- Additional information
This requirement is up and running in some Probation areas, and not in others.
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