The overall aims of this intervention is to deliver visible unpaid work in the community in order to offer a package of punishment, reparation, learning and training options to adult offenders who have been sentenced to a community order with an Unpaid work (UPW) requirement.

The provider must be able to deliver all unpaid work requirements as follows;

• Ensure Unpaid work is delivered to all offenders sentenced by the courts, with or without an OASys assessment and on stand alone or multi requirement orders;
• Ensure that the work is visible, value adding and linked to local community priorities to promote community safety;
• Ensure that the work undertaken provides benefits to the range of diverse communities in the Area, and that the diversity needs of staff and offenders are planned for;
• Ensure unpaid work placements are offered in a variety of formats to meet personal, work, geographic, cultural transport and family issues of offenders;
• Ensure risk issues associated with offenders and health and safety on placements are identified and managed;
• Work in collaboration with other stakeholders such as Offender Management, Prisons, and Police, involved in the delivery of services to offenders;
• Work in partnership with a range of other providers in voluntary, statutory and private organisations to form an integrated system of services that will meet offenders immediate and longer term needs, the needs of the court and the community;
• Ensure that the range of unpaid work opportunities take into account diversity issues and prioritise community safety and engagement with local communities to identify appropriate work;

• Criminal Justice Act (2003)
• NOMS Offender Management Principles (2005)
• Community Payback – Good practice Guidance (2005)
• NPS National Standards
• NPS Business plan
• Current operational manual and practice guidance