Supervision Orders

The purpose of Supervision Orders is to help and prevent young people offending and to protect the public from harm.
Young people will be expected to consider the effect the crime has on its victims and make amends in their behaviour. 

What will the young person have to do? 
The order can be made for up to three years.
If the young person makes good progress, their Supervising Officer can ask the court to end the order early. The court is unlikely to agree to this unless the young person has completed at least half the sentence satisfactorily, and provided they have not committed another offence. 
The order will be organised by a Supervising Officer according to standards required by the Home Office. The Supervising Officer has a duty to encourage the young person to work on those areas that are linked to their offending. 
The young person and their parents, where possible, will be asked to review this plan with the Supervising Officer every three months. 

What are the rules? 
To comply with the Supervision Order young people must: 

• Notify any change of address
• attend when required
• arrive on time for appointments
• comply with any reasonable directions
• comply with any additional requirements included their order.     

What happens if the young person does not co-operate?
If a young person misses appointments without a good reason a formal warnings will be issued. 
If there are further failures to co-operate a review meeting will decide whether the young person should go back to court. If the court considers a breach, it may: 

• Revoke the order and pass another sentence, which could include custody. 
  
• Tell the young person to complete the order, the court may also impose either a fine of up to £1,000, an Attendance Centre Order or Curfew Order.  You can find out more about these on the court orders page.   

The Supervision Order is a sentence of the court which aims to make demands on the offender and protect the public from harm.
We will work with a young person to find new ways of dealing with situations so that they do not offend again.