Conclusions and recommendations
Box 1: The five aims of sentencing
Box 2: List of requirements that can be attached to a community order
Chapter 2: A key sentencing option
An effective option to reduce reoffending
Decline in the use of community orders
Figure 1: Number of community orders issued every year
Box 4: The ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ reforms
Chapter 3: Tailoring sentences to the individual
Scaling up the use of treatment requirements
Box 5: Statistics on the imposition of Community Sentence Treatment Requirements (CSTRs)
Mainstreaming wraparound support
Borrowing best practices from youth justice
Innovating to support young adults
Ongoing efforts towards more local delivery
Box 6: Devolution of justice powers to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Making the most out of partnerships
The 2021 commissioning process
The operation of current contracts
The next commissioning process
Chapter 5: Challenges faced by the Probation Service
Box 7: Attrition rates among probation staff
Tension between ‘befriending’ and ‘supervising’
Box 8: The specialised IT systems used in Probation casework
Box 9: Statistics on Pre-Sentence Reports (PSRs)
Figure 3: Pre-sentence reports
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7425/community-sentences/publications/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.