Social Enquiry Reports
Social Enquiry Reports are central to the services we provide, giving information to sentencers to assist in the decisions they are required to take. Reports not only provide sentencers with the information they require, but they help them to make comprehensive assessments of the re-offending potential of people on whom they are prepared. This enables future Social Work interventions to be appropriately planned and targeted.
Assessments need to be ‘offence led’ and are supported by structured risk assessments. This should lead to clearly stated intervention plans where recommendations are made for social work disposals.
Objectives
- To provide courts with high quality professional assessments to assist sentencers make the most appropriate disposals.
- To ensure that all reports use structured risk assessment and address offending behaviour.
- To ensure that all reports recommending Social Work disposals contain a detailed action plan.
- To monitor Social Enquiry Reports, to ensure that they comply with national objectives and standards for Social Work Services in the Criminal Justice System.
- To publish a range of performance information annually on Social Enquiry Reports, to enhance our accountability to funders, courts and the community.
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