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What happens if you're given a community sentence or community service. Find out about Community Payback and the rules of your community sentence.
You may get a community sentence if you’re convicted of a crime by a court…
Community Payback is unpaid work like: removing graffiti clearing…
The treatment or programmes you get are intended to help with problems…
What you can and cannot do while on a community sentence is decided by: a…
Community sentences for young people are different from those given to…
Apply for funding for community projects that prevent hate crime.
This page provides more information about the Know Your Neighbourhood Fund.
The guidance explains the neighbourhood planning system introduced by the Localism Act, including key stages and considerations required.
Disputes with neighbours - noisy neighbours, barking dogs, statutory nuisances, high hedges, mediation and when your council can step in
Your local council may have details of organisations in your community that can give help and support - contact your council to find out more
The Community Life Survey is held annually to track trends and developments in areas that encourage social action and empower communities.
Nominate a Community Payback project to suggest what unpaid work offenders carry out locally; who to contact and what happens next
What to do if you’re about to be flooded and during flooding: who to contact, how to stay safe, how to report a problem.
Statistics on residency-based school absences and attainment data for pupils by gender, free school meal eligibility and ethnicity.
During the last decade, NRS has invested over £10 million socio-economic funding into more than 1,400 community driven projects to create sustainable growth.
Communities across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to benefit from over £150 million in funding to support community ownership of local assets.
Contact your police and crime commissioner (PCC) to make a suggestion on how your local area is policed or complain about your PCC.
Protecting staff, passengers and property on public transport: police roles, CCTV and witness evidence use, tools to restrict anti-social acts
This collection brings together all the notes on neighbourhood planning.
Powers that police, councils and other authorities can use to control or improve the behaviour of dogs.
A short summary of the projects to be funded under the 2022 Windrush Day Grant Scheme.
Check out schemes for crime prevention and community safety with your council
This collection brings together four investment programmes which aim to level up communities.
Find out why you might get a civil injunction, Community Protection Notice, Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) (formerly known as ASBOs), what it means and what happens if you break it.
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