• About your sentence:

The Court has sentenced you to either a Suspended Sentence Order or a Community Order with one requirement being the Residence Requirement. This means that you must live in a particular place for as long as the requirement lasts. It could be your own home, someone elses home of a Probation Approved bail Hostel or premises. During this timeyou willnot be allowed to live anywhere else unless the officer responsible for your sentence agrees.

• Your 'Responsible Officer' will:

• Make it clear where you will live and how long you wil live there
• 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.
• Assist you with move on accommodation as and when required
• Treat you fairly and with respect

• What you should do:

• Adhere to the residence 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.
• Let your responsible officer visit you at home if they need to

• 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

Supervision is the underpinning factor for most requirements proposed within Suspended Sentence and Community Orders. Ths element is also used to completed pre and post work for accredited programmes.

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