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Community Service

The Probation Service administers the Community Service Scheme. Community Service is the name given to a sentence which can be imposed by all the Bailiwick's Courts which allows an offender the opportunity to do unpaid work, normally as an alternative to a custodial sentence.

The Community Service Scheme was introduced in the Bailiwick in 2007 but is an important and well-established community-based sentence which has been used in the United Kingdom since 1977 and Jersey since 1982.

Placement beneficiaries must either be charitable or other non-profit-making organisations.

Community Service is performed by offenders, either working on an individual basis and reporting directly to a beneficiary, or as part as a supervised work party group supervised by Probation Service supervisors. 

Orders made by the Alderney and Sark Courts are performed in those Islands.


Community Service

Guernsey Probation Service,  The Market Buildings,  Fountain Street,  St Peter Port,  Guernsey ,  GY1 1BX,  Channel Islands
Tel: +44 1481 724337 Fax: +44 1481 710545
Email: probation@gov.gg


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