Agenda Item F' 10 Report

Report to: Lanarkshire Community Justice Authority Date of Meeting: 9 September 2016 Report by: Kim Potter— Operations Manager

Subject: Quarterly Update of Community Payback Order (Unpaid Work Requirement) − Council

Purpose of Report 1.1. Theto:−Updatepurpose of the report is

members on Community Payback Unpaid Work Service activity during Financial Quarter 1: 1 April 2016 to 30 June 2016.

2. Recommendation(s) 2.1. Therecommendation(s):CJA is asked−to(1)approve the following

to note the contents of the report.

3. Synopsis of Work: 3.1. South Lanarkshire Council's Unpaid Work Service has received: (1) 90 new level one Community Payback Orders with an Unpaid Work Requirement during the above period. This totalled 6953 hours; (2) 93 new level two Community Payback Orders with an Unpaid Work Requirement during the above period. This totalled 16,293 hours; (3) Resulting in a collective total allocation of 183 Community Payback Orders and 23,246 Community Payback hours during the above period; and (4) During the above period 4 Fiscal Work Orders have been assessed, resulting in 0 new orders generating zero hours.

4. New Referrals 4.1. During this quarter, through the Council's online referral system, a total of 109 new referrals to Unpaid Work were received. These continue to include referrals from: • South Lanarkshire Council • Social Work Resources • Housing and Technical Resources • Education Resources • Councillors and • Scottish Fire and Rescue Service 4.1.1. Third sector agencies including: • Shelter • Woman's Aid • Barnardo's • Homelessness Support Groups 4.1.2. Community Groups including: • Larkhall Growers Association • Tact Hall, • Churches (all denominations) • Friends of Lang land's Moss • Castlebank Gardens Horticultural Society

4.2. The undertaking of referral work following site and task assessments as required to meet Health and Safety legislation updates in Construction Design Management totalled 10,342 service users unpaid work hours and 3066 supervisory hours allocated to tasks.

5. Environmental Work 5.1. The following is an overview of some of the environmental project work that has been undertaken by Unpaid Work Service during the last quarter: (1) Ground Maintenance The unpaid work service continued throughout the quarter to undertake the maintenance of grounds, including winter specific tasks such as litter picking, snow clearing, gritting and leaf and moss clearing for a wide range of community resources including churches, Sheltered Housing complexes, New Lanark Visitor Centre and public pathways across the authority. This work both enhances the aesthetic environment and assists in the reduction of risk from falls and slips to many of the elderly or infirm tenants.

This resulted in unpaid work undertaking 2,798 hours of service user unpaid work and 791 supervisory hours.

(2) Carluke Cemetery Carluke cemetery benefitted from ground and clearance work to enhance the cemetery prior to the memorial service commemorating the battle of the Somme. The visual improvement resulting from the work undertaken has had a positive effect on the area.

The total hours undertaken on this project within the quarter equated to 338 hours of work and 77 supervisory hours.

(3) Braehead House The service continues to participate in supporting Braehead House Charity, a non−denominational Christian healing and retreat centre with garden restoration work. The unpaid work service worked along− side the charity's volunteers are installing and clearing pathways, trimming trees and assisting in the restoration of a garden area. Over the last quarter the service has been removing tree lines and preparing a large area for turfing and seeding.

This equated to 876 hours of service user work and 350 supervisory hours.

(4) Clydesmill Fire Station Clydesmill is an exciting project initiated by Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in conjunction with Lanarkshire Beekeepers Association, Cambuslang Apiary Project, Voluntary Action South Lanarkshire, Scotland's Rural College, Cairns Primary School and Westburn Nursery. Phase 1 funding was approved by SLC Pride of Place board in Oct 2015. With Phase 2 funding applications submitted to Central Scotland Green Network fund and Tesco's groundworks, which supply funding to provide green spaces within communities.

It is anticipated that the on−going maintenance and upkeep of the site will be undertaken by the community groups with The Community Payback team providing ongoing labour for maintenance.

Justice Secretary Michael Matheson visited the project in recognition of the innovative nature of the projects community partnership. At which time he announced additional Scottish Government funding is to be made available to Criminal Justice Services.

The total hours undertaken on this project within the quarter equated to 686 hours of work and 147 supervisory hours.

5.2. Progress on other work projects (1) Painting The unpaid work service provided support and assistance to both individual householders and community organisations through the provision of supervised work squads to assist with the preparation and undertaking of painting and decorating tasks. During the quarter referrals were received from Shelter, St Andrews Church and Social Work. Tasks ranged from individual rooms to whole premises.

The total hours of painting work completed within the quarter equated to 1,171 hours of work and 273 supervisory hours.

(2) House Removals Removals continue to provide valuable project work opportunities for the service to support and assist individuals move house, often as a result of threat of risk of harm or due to poor social circumstances. Links are well established with several community partners including Shelter Support Service, the Central Homelessness Team, Women's Aid, Blue Triangle Supported Accommodation and the Debra Charity shops in EK and Hamilton.

The total hours of removal work completed within the quarter equated to 1,358 hours of work and 308 supervisory hours.

(3) Laundry Service The Home Care Laundry facility continues to provide two placements to support home care staff with the collection, washing and delivery of service users laundry. The service which is delivered Monday to Friday is provided to vulnerable or incapacitated members of the community. It is also utilised by the Haven

This service has equated to 88 service user sessions during this quarter, accounting for 616 hours of unpaid work

(4) Wood Workshop Despite ongoing challenges in relation to meeting and adhering to increasingly challenging Health and Safety requirements, the workshop continues to provide service consistency. The focus of which is primarily commission based construction, refurbishment and site placement of wooden benches and environmental planters to schools, community groups and sheltered housing complexes.

This activity has resulted in 511 service user hours and 119 supervisory hours being allocated to this activity during this quarter.

Appendix A gives a pictorial insight into areas of work undertaken by the Unpaid Work Service.

5.3. Single Placements The use of single placements continues to be encouraged as a way for unpaid work service users to provide a direct benefit to local community groups and Voluntary Organisations. Over the last quarter single placement provision was secured within a variety of settings including SLC Land Services, Marie Curie − Larkhall, Cambuslang, PDSA − East Kilbride, Barnardos − Rutherglen, OXFAM − Hamilton, Lifestyles − Fairh ill and Loaves and Fishes Food bank

The total number of service user hours undertaken in agency placements during the quarter was 1,805.

6. Other Activities 6.1. Community Payback provides the opportunity for 30% or up to 30 hours of the total hours awarded to service users, to be utilised in the undertaking of work aimed at changing behaviour and addressing unmet need. Opportunities in which this might be met are numerous and varied including, health, education, parenting skills, employment and social integration.

6.2. A six week group work programme aimed at enabling service users to identify and strengthen skills in order to make positive change to their lives was piloted by staff and service users at Auchentibber. "Unlocking Your Potential" utilised group based CBT exercises and home work tasks. It incorporated a variety of learning styles including visual and written tasks to allow service users to explore, among other areas, their behaviour, decision−making and communication skills. Initial feedback has been positive and a further group targeted across South Lanarkshire's locality Criminal Justice Teams is being planned.

6.3. Feedback from participants included: "all sessions were good and helpful", "successful", "stopped harming myself by being able to talk to others" "enjoyable, well presented and relaxing", "interesting", "practical" "making me think twice about my behaviour and emotional issues" "I would attend another group even after my CS is over".

The following are examples of some of the ways in which offenders have utilised 964 hours of other activity during this quarter:

6.4. Health and Wellbeing support is provided by community practice nurses, who visit Auchentibber on a monthly basis. Service users are provided with the opportunity to engage in health checks including blood pressure, weight, diabetes and sexual wellbeing. The community nurses work with service users to ensure referrals are made, as required, to appropriate follow on health services. Many of these additional consultations are credited to other activity. Linked to health and wellbeing is the Leisure and Recreation opportunities provided in partnership with Leisure and Culture Services. This support work is highly beneficial to individuals who are experiencing mental health issues including depression and anxiety and those who are in the recovery and maintenance phases of substance use programmes. Health and wellbeing support accounted for 169 service user other activity hours. Leisure and Recreation supports accounted for 81 other activity hours.

6.5. Educational and Employment support provides opportunity to service users to gain literacy, numeracy and IT skills that might facilitate improved parenting skills and or employment opportunities. The unpaid work service has a positive working partnership with Community Learning and Home School Partnership colleagues.

6.6. Within education the services, the Come Dine with Me programme continues to be popular. Come Dine with Me continues to be delivered 4 days per week, providing healthy eating and nutritional education through structured cookery learning experiences.

Educational and Employment support, including CDWM accounted for 678 service user hours.

6.7. Referrals to and work engaged in with Substance Misuse partners accounted for 26 service user hours. It should however be noted that many service users engaged with substance misuse support services via alternative routes that are not reflected in their unpaid work programme.

7. Fiscal Work Order (FWO) 7.1. FWOs were introduced by the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 as an alternative to prosecution. FWOs provide Procurators Fiscal with the option of offering an alleged offender community−based reparative work (of between 10 and 50 hours), successful completion discharges the right to prosecute for the related offence.

7.2. During the period 1 April−30 June 2016, the service received 7 assessment requests. Four assessments were undertaken and all 4 were assessed as suitable for FWO. Three assessments were not completed, 2 due to non co−operation and for other reasons.

7.3. During the quarter no new FWO were received with zero hours being initiated.

7.4. The use of Fiscal Work Orders in South Lanarkshire by Procurator Fiscal Services has remained low, resulting in the need to review service delivery at a local level.

8. Comments of Appreciation 8.1. The service continues to receive encouraging and positive feedback from individuals and community groups thanking service users and supervisors for the work they have undertaken. Some examples of this appreciation are:

Good Afternoon All

/ attended the opening of the Wallace trail today at Castlebank Park. I have attached some pictures to let you see the grand job that has been done by many. Sylvia thanked South Lanarkshire Council for all their work and help with the project she most grateful ...... was to the Community Pay Back Team for all the work they did at the start of the project and throughout the project. A lot of hard work was done by all and I thought I would let you know how the Community and visitors to Lanark will benefit from it. Thanks to all of you and can you pass this on to all the workers from the Development Trust.

Regards Catherine McClymont Council/or North Ward () Chair of Clydesdale Area Committee & Clydesdale Licensing Board

"There is no better example of the benefits of the Community Payback Scheme which helped lay the very foundation upon which this garden will be built. The preparatory work was carried out thanks to the Community Payback Scheme − including pathway, fencing and even a bee hive area. Senior Officer Alan Fairbairn: SFRS

9. Conclusion 9.1. The last quarter has seen a slight reduction in the number of Community Payback Orders with an unpaid work requirement. This has not however deterred innovative project developments, which despite logistical challenges faced by staff in delivering the service have been recognised by both community partners and the Scottish Government. Other activity hours focus on needs led implementation aimed at enhancing social, parental and educational skills, improving health and challenging thinking and behaviours associated with offending behaviour in order to reduce recidivism and strengthen public protection.

9.2. Continued identification of community partnership project work including the groundwork undertaken at Carluke Cemetery, in preparation for the Somme Memorial Service is of high value to local communities and underpins the ethos of Community Payback.

9.3. Staff at both placement co−ordinator and placement supervisor level continue to work through SVQ level 3 and 2 qualifications.

10. Employee Implications 10.1. None.

11. Financial Implications 11.1. None.

12. Other Implications 12.1. None known.

13. Equality Impact Assessment and Consultation Arrangements 13.1. No significant consultation was undertaken as part of this report.

13.2. The report does not introduce a new policy, function or strategy therefore no equality or impact assessment was carried out.

Kim Potter, Operations Manager Lanarkshire Community Justice Authority

List of Background Papers

Contact for Further Information If you would like to inspect the background papers or want further information, please contact:−Kim Potter, Operations Manager Ext: 813 3916 Phone: 01698 453916 E−mail: kim.potter(southlanarkshire.qcsx.qov.uk Appendix A

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I am writing to thank you and your colleagues for taking the time to organise my visit to the unpaid work comnrunity garden project at Ctydesrrrill Cnruirnurrity Fire .Slalurrri ri Carribr slang On 15 June.

It was a real pleasure to Visit the community garden and see first−hand (lie groat work being clone by people on Community Payback Orders to turn this area of unmanaged ground into a vatLuable resource for the local conrrnurrity.

very rrrLrclu enjoyed talking to the staff and partners who are involved in delivering this innovative project, as well as to the people completing unpaid work. I also enjoyed meeting some of the herrotirriaries of the community garden, who were clearly very enthusiastic about the impact the project will have and I will took forward to hearing how the project progresses

Please pass on my thanks to Santosh, Linda, Kevin and all those involved within South Lcurranksluire Council Social Work Resources for assisting with the arrangements for the Visit. I have also written to Station Manager Robert Deans to express mygratitude for the role of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service in co−ordinating my visit.

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