What level of compliance with community service orders social work departments consider acceptable before reporting a breach of such an ord…

The compliance standards expected are set out in the National Objectives and Standards for Social Work Services in the Criminal Justice System, part 2, Service Standards, Community Service, paragraphs 75 to 100. These standards set out disciplinary procedures in the event of the following specific grounds for non-compliance comprise:failure to attend for work;lack of punctuality;failure to report as required by the Community Service Officer;failure to notify a change of address without delay;failure to notify a change in employment circumstances without delay, andfailure to perform work to a satisfactory standard.Disciplinary procedures will normally involve giving the offender a chance to explain or rectify the failure and may lead to a formal warning. After a second failure, breach proceedings will normally follow, although a measure of flexibility has been built to allow the development of effective local practice and to reflect the individual circumstances of cases.