Enhanced Community Punishment

CJIW works within Youth Offending Teams across North Wales in the provision of purposeful and challenging unpaid work opportunities for 16-18 year olds.  Value is added by the encouragement of voluntary participation in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and the achievement of additional qualifications outside of the time allocated to their statutory orders.  The programme offers further benefit in providing unpaid work as a service distinct from adult offenders.  Evaluation of this programme has indicated a significant increase in the rate of successful completion of community and subsequent reduction in re-offending by participants, acknowledged by the Howard League for Penal Reform which awarded the project national runner-up status in its 2010 Community Programme Award.