Criminal justice social work statistics in Scotland: 2015-2016

National-level information on criminal justice social work activity in Scotland, including data on criminal justice social work services and social work orders.


Table 2 Social work orders: 2009-10 to 2015-16

  2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 7
Orders commenced 19,865 18,044 19,746 19,661 20,458 20,120 20,440
Community payback orders 1,2   .. 10,228 16,063 18,689 19,064 19,410
Community service orders 3 6,429 5,940 3,044 693 227 85 ..
Probation orders 3 8,838 8,136 3,040 514 138 62 ..
With an element of unpaid work 3 3,236 3,031 1,276 216 71 24 ..
Supervised attendance orders 3 3,859 3,307 2,877 1,752 779 358 ..
Drug treatment and testing orders 2 739 661 557 639 625 551 522
Fiscal work orders 6             508
Individuals with orders commenced 18,127 16,554 18,044 17,179 17,684 17,290 17,473
Community payback orders 2   .. 9,376 13,986 16,084 16,327 16,491
Community service orders 6,053 5,665 2,933 656 219 83 ..
Probation orders 8,182 7,520 2,833 490 130 61 ..
With an element of unpaid work 3,074 2,875 1,228 213 66 24 ..
Supervised attendance orders 3,219 2,764 2,380 1,472 654 298 ..
Drug treatment and testing orders 2 673 605 522 575 597 521 479
Fiscal work orders 6             503
Orders in force at 31 March 4
Community payback orders 2   .. .. 13,558 16,088 17,060 18,186
Drug treatment and testing orders 2 .. .. .. 742 692 598 565
Orders terminated 18,290 17,869 17,213 18,664 20,043 19,925 19,736
Community payback orders 2   .. 2,616 10,568 16,159 18,092 18,284
Community service orders 6,737 6,082 4,706 2,037 759 245 109
Probation orders 7,551 7,883 6,619 3,339 996 317 127
Supervised attendance orders 3,414 3,246 2,639 2,128 1,454 626 298
Drug treatment and testing orders 2 588 658 633 592 675 645 555
Fiscal work orders 6             363
Proportion of completions/discharges 5 62.5 64.2 68.6 68.7 70.3 68.0 67.6
Community payback orders 2,5   .. 68.8 68.3 71.7 68.7 68.0
Community service orders 69.6 74.0 74.4 71.1 69.2 64.1 65.1
Probation orders 57.0 59.8 67.1 74.8 78.6 78.5 84.3
Supervised attendance orders 63.9 60.1 65.1 62.9 58.3 59.3 56.7
Drug treatment and testing orders 2 44.7 46.0 53.6 52.4 51.7 54.7 49.5
Fiscal work orders 6             80.4

1. Information on orders commenced was collected from local authorities from 2011-12 onward. Figures from the Scottish Court Service suggest around 300 community payback orders were imposed in 2010-11. Figures are available at http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Crime-Justice/Datasets/CPOs.

2. 2012-13, 2013-14 & 2014-15 figures for community payback orders and drug treatment & testing orders revised since original publication due to updated information being received from some local authorities. These revisions are particularly substantive for CPO terminations in 2014-15 and CPOs in force at March 2015 due mainly to some councils reporting that orders had not been getting closed off on their IT systems.

3. Information on community service, probation and supervised attendance orders commenced was not collected from local authorities in 2015-16 due to the small numbers involved. The total for these orders is estimated to be in the region of around 200.

4. Data based on unit-level returns from 2012-13 onward.

5. As a result of revisions made to the 2012-13 & 2013-14 figures for community payback orders since their original publication, the reason for termination is not known for a small number of orders. The figures for the proportion of completions/discharges have therefore been calculated as a proportion of the orders where this reason was known.

6. Fiscal work orders were introduced nationally on 1 April 2015, having been piloted in a small number of local authority areas since June 2008.

7. As a result of the introduction of fiscal work orders and the non-collection of commencements figures for community service, probation and supervised attendance orders in 2015-16, comparisons for total social work orders between 2015-16 and previous years should be interpreted with caution.

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