Community sentences
Treatment and programmes
The treatment or programmes you get are intended to help with problems that led you to commit crime in the first place. They’re also to stop you committing more crime.
Programmes and treatment could be to help with:
- any addictions you have, for example drugs
- a mental health condition
- getting new skills and qualifications
Depending on the treatment or programme, it could involve:
- counselling sessions - where you get support from a medical professional
- drug testing
- ‘accredited programmes’, such as anger management courses, to help with your behaviour
- mental health treatment with a doctor or psychologist
- improving your reading and writing
- getting help with a job application
- learning interview skills
If you do not complete a treatment or programme, or fail a drugs test, you could be sent back to court and your punishment could increase.