• 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. This element means that you must meet regularly with your supervising Probation Officer, and you will work together to identify and resolve aspects of your life that need to change and/or are linked to your offending behaviour. For example they could assist you in finding wor, assisting with accommodation issues or assist with financial management. they may also work to help you complete other requirements.

• Your 'Responsible Officer' will:

• Explain your sentence to you and make it clear that you must attend supervisin sessions
• 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 with practical issues and work with areas linked to your offending behaviour
• Treat you fairly and with respect

• What you should do:

• Adhere to the supervision 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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