Criminal Justice Social Work Services

Main Aim:

To Increase Community Safety by Reducing Re-offending

Main Responsibilities:

• Provide the Court with a range of effective alternatives to prison
• Provide effective supervision of offenders within the community
• Challenge offending behaviour
• Assist offenders to recognise the impact of their behaviour on themselves, their families, the community and others
• Assist with problems related to offending e.g. drug/alcohol use
• Assist individuals to make those practical and behavioural changes required to sustain a reduction in offending in the longer term
• Assist those released from prison to settle back into the community
• Increasing community safety by reducing and managing risk

Main Services Include:

• Social Enquiry and other reports to the Courts
• Diversion from Prosecution
• Supervised Attendance Orders
• Probation
• Throughcare Services
• Community Based Supervision
• Community Service Orders
• Community Service by Offenders Scheme
• Criminal Justice Drug Services
• Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements

Contacts

• Lesley Simpson
  Service Manager
  Criminal Justice Social Work
  Exchequer House
  Exchequer Row
  Aberdeen
  AB11 5BW
  Phone: 01224 765 000
  Fax: 01224 576 109
  Email: lsimpson@aberdeencity.gov.uk