•  About your sentence:

The Court has sentenced you to either a Suspended Sentence Order or a Community Order with one requirement being the Specified Activity. It would appear that different Probation areas wil offer varying specified activities, although one recurrent theme would be that of an Education, Traing and Employment (ETE) activity. Through this requirement you will be given help, which you must accept, to find employment or improve your skills, which in turn woul dincrease your levels of employability.

You will see an ETE specialist who will talk to you about your previous employment, your future goals, your learning experiences and what assistance you will need in finding work. This contact can assist in a variety of ways; enabling you to improve your basic skills, to access suitable traing courses and improve interview techniques/application form completion.

• Your 'Responsible Officer' will:

• Explain your sentence to you
• Make it clear as to the type of work you will be undertaking and when you wil be expected to attend
• Explain what will happen to you if you fail to undertake the reuquired work (you may be returned to Court)
• Review your progress and assist you in completing the activity sucessfully.
• Treat you fairly and with respect

• What you should do:

• Attend appointments on time
• 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 unable to keep an appointment inform Probation staff as soon as possible.
• 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

Some Probation areas offer further specified activities. For example in one such area there is an alcohol requirement which can be incorporated as a specified activity. The Court are able tospecify 'up to' the number of hours an individual must complete within this requirement.

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