CouncilSupervision orders
- What is a supervision order?
- What is the purpose of a supervision order?
- If I you are subject to a supervision order, what will you have to do?
- Additional Requirements
- If you make good progress …
- If you do not comply with your supervision order …
- Further information
A supervision order is a non custodial sentence that is imposed on a young person (aged 11 – 17), either at a youth court or crown court. The order requires the young person to be supervised by a member of the youth offending team (called the ‘supervising officer’). The order can be made for up to three years.
Your order will be organised by your supervising officer, according to standards required by the home office.
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What is the purpose of a supervision order?
The purpose of a supervision order is to:
- help a young person to do what is necessary to stop offending
- protect the public from harm.
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If I you are subject to a supervision order, what will you have to do?
Once the order has been made your co-operation and the support of your family are essential if it is to be of use to you.
- You will be assigned a youth offending team worker, who will supervise the supervision order
- This worker will draw up a detailed plan (called a ‘supervision plan’) of what you will be doing during your order (such attending school and meetings with the offending team worker)
- This plan will be agreed with you and your parents/carers within the first week
- The supervision plan will be reviewed every three months. You and your parents, where possible, will be asked to help in this process. You and your parents, where appropriate, also have a right to a copy of the plan.
The supervision order aims to make demands on the offender and protect the public from harm. We will work with you to find new ways of dealing with situations so that you do not offend again. You will also be expected to consider the effect the crime has on its victims and make amends for your behaviour.
Your supervising officer has a duty to encourage you to work on those areas that are linked to your offending. If this is going to make any difference, you will need to talk openly with your officer about yourself.
To comply with your supervision order you must:
- Notify the supervising officer if you change your address
- Attend appointments (with youth offending team staff or partner agencies) when required
- Arrive on time for these appointments
- Comply with any reasonable directions from youth offending team staff, such as attending school and other appointments
- Comply with any additional requirements, such as specific pieces of work or activities included in your order.
For the duration of the order, the following behaviour is prohibited on youth offending team premises, or when youth offending team staff (or persons operating under their direction) accompany you:
- Attending appointments while under the influence of alcohol or drugs
- Fighting, violent or aggressive behaviour or threats of violence
- Other conduct or language that might reasonably give serious offence to people
- Other persistent non co-operative behaviour.
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At the time of sentence, the court may add further requirements which you must comply with. These could include requirements to:
- Live at specified places
- Participate in specified activities
- Adhere to a curfew for specified periods of time.
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If you make good progress, you or your supervising officer can ask the court to end the order early.
The court is unlikely to agree to this unless, in the opinion of your supervising officer, you have completed at least half the sentence satisfactorily, and provided you have not committed another offence.
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If you do not comply with your supervision order …
If you do not comply with, or ‘breach’ any requirement of your order the youth offending team will return you to court. The court will expect you to answer to this alleged breach, and will decide if you have breached the order.
If the court considers that you have breached your order, it may:
- revoke the order and pass another sentence, which could include custody
- tell you to complete the order, but punish you by imposing either a fine of up to £1,000, an attendance centre order or curfew order.
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Further information
Contact: Paula Williams, Community Supervision Team, Tower Hamlets
and the City of London Youth Offending Team, St. Mary’s Church
Hall, Kitcat Terrace, London, E3 2SA.
E-mail: youthoffending@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Tel: 020 7364 1142
Fax: 020 8983 9911
Pid No: 834
