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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.

• Overview

  You may get a community sentence if you’re convicted of a crime by a court…

• Community Payback

  Community Payback is unpaid work like: removing graffiti clearing…

• Treatment and programmes

  The treatment or programmes you get are intended to help with problems…

• What you can and cannot do while on a community sentence

  What you can and cannot do while on a community sentence is decided by: a…

• Community sentences if you are under 18

  Community sentences for young people are different from those given to…

Nominate a Community Payback project to suggest what unpaid work offenders carry out locally; who to contact and what happens next

• Updated: 1 January 2003

Find out about the different types of HMRC penalties and how you can help your clients avoid them.

• Updated: 13 January 2023

Lessons from the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) investigation into 10 construction firms who broke the law by rigging bids for contracts.

• Updated: 16 December 2025

Data on redress for postmasters impacted, without a conviction, by the Post Office Capture software.

• Updated: 8 December 2025

Find out about negative earnings, clawback bonuses and claiming tax loss relief or a tax refund.

• Updated: 24 July 2023

When you start repaying your student loan, your monthly repayments, what to do if you have 2 jobs or are self-employed, how to get a refund if you've overpaid.

A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios.

• Updated: 28 October 2023

Sanctions statistics for Jobseeker’s Allowance, Employment and Support Allowance and Universal Credit, data to January 2019.

• Updated: 14 May 2019