Successful Community Service Visibility Bid
| Successful Community Service Visibility Bid |
| Monday, 28 July 2008 | |||
Community Service Visibility ProjectSouth West Scotland CJA has been awarded £20,000 by the Scottish Government to increase the visibility and public awareness of community service as an effective way of dealing with offenders which puts something of value back into the community.We have worked with colleagues in Community Planning Partnerships and local authority communications teams along with criminal justice social work managers to develop and carry out our project. What are we gong to do?The pilot project will run for six months from September 2008 and we will be reporting our initial progress in December 2008 and March 2009.We want to better inform the public about community service and to change their perceptions of it. Advertising in local newspapers and on local radio will help us to do this. Community Service offers benefits to local communities. We will put plaques at suitable sites so that people know that offenders on community services did this work. We are carrying out surveys to know what people think of Community Service. We will also give people a chance to vote for future community service projects.an take part in our online survey here. [link to CS online survey]
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