Guide to Our Reparation Service

The Appropriate Adult Service can provide a service that works with individual offenders, or a comprehensive scheme that co-ordinates the entire service.

The Appropriate Adult Service can organise new placements, or simply work with existing placements that have been identified.

Comprehensive Service

The Appropriate Adult Service is able to offer a fully comprehensive reparation service, whereby we will co-ordinate the entire service. We can identify and arrange the placements, conduct health and safety checks on the placements, obtain medical consent from parents, organize the sessions, and provide the personnel to supervise the sessions.

We will always aim to organize placements within the community local to the young person.

We are able to undertake direct reparation involving the victim, or indirect reparation to the community.

We will liaise with the YOT to try and coincide reparation sessions with other requirements of the order, and will always obtain the availability and other commitments of the young person prior to booking any sessions.

We will contact the young people in writing informing them of the sessions that have been booked for them and again will make contact with the young person the day before every session to remind them this will help to reduce non attendance.

In the event of a non attendance, the YOT will be informed immediately.

We will complete an action sheet detailing individual sessions, and fax this to the YOT on the day the session is completed, ensuring that the YOT systems are kept as up to date as possible.

As with all The Appropriate Adult Service Services, it is completely flexible, and can be used as best suits the needs of the individual YOT.

We will provide details about the number of hours completed after every session, ensuring that YOT systems can be kept as up to date as possible.

We can provide the YOT with a weekly position statement detailing the number of hours each young person has completed, and the number of hours outstanding.

We will also notify the YOT immediately of any non attendances.

Flexibility

As with all the services The Appropriate Adult Service provide, the reparation service is designed to fit around the needs of the YOT. We can provide the fully comprehensive service, or simply be used for individual cases or young people.

We can use current placements that have been identified by the YOT, and if necessary conduct all the relevant health and safety checks before work commences.

We understand that there is a need to be flexible and work around the commitments of the young people, meaning that we are happy to supervise sessions after school, at weekends, bank holidays and during school holidays.

Group Work

We are happy to arrange group work sessions, or individual sessions, we will always liaise with the YOT to organize sessions that best suit the needs of the young people. We also understand that there may be occasions when particular young people are not suitable for work in groups, and can arrange individual sessions.

If you would like to arrange to meet with a member of The Appropriate Adult Service staff to discuss the service further, and to see how the service can be tailored to suit your individual requirements or if you would like any more information, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0845 600 1528, or e-mail on info@theappropriateadultservice.org.uk

Examples of some of the placements we arrange are gardening, litter picking, painting, car washing, work in Charity Shops, maintenance work around residential homes and hospitals, work in church cafés

We offer a fully comprehensive reparation service.

Reparation Services - painting and decorating

We remind the young person before every session - to reduce non-attendance.