Corrective Services NSW

Community Corrections policy and procedures

The sections of the Community Corrections Policy and Procedures Manual are listed below. Please email comcor.policy@dcj.nsw.gov.au - external site if you would like a copy of any of the sections or if you have an enquiry.

​Section i: Introduction
​i
 ​Introduction to the Community Corrections Policy and Procedures Manual
​ii
 ​Using the Community Corrections Policy and Procedures Manual

​Section A: Managing the office
​A5
 ​Extended service delivery
A6 Working with the remote service delivery team

​Section B: Working with offenders
​B1
 ​Legal issues
​B2
 ​Recording information
​B3
 ​Requesting information
​B4
 ​Releasing information
​B5
 ​Exchanging information about risk of harm to children
​B6
 ​Reporting risk of harm to children
​B7
 ​Identifying offenders with a disability
​B8
 ​Culture and language
​B9
 ​Staff safety
​B10
 ​Managing threats to staff

​Section C: Writing reports
​C1
 ​Sentencing assessment reports
​C2
 ​Preparing sentencing assessment reports
​C3
 ​Writing sentencing assessment reports
​C4
 ​Bail supervision

Section D: Supervising offenders
​D2
 ​Assessment
​D3
 ​Case planning
​D4
 ​Conditions and directions
D5 Supervision
D6 Intervention and programs
D7 Transfers between offices
D8 Suspension and completion
D9 Triage assessment

​Section E: Supervision considerations
​E1
 ​Serious incident reporting
​E2
 ​Drug testing
​E3
 ​Domestic violence minimum standards
​E4
 ​Managing registrable offenders
​E5
 ​Accommodation for child sex offenders
​E7
 ​Victims and restorative justice

Section F: Good behaviour bonds and commonwealth recognisances
​F1
 ​Good behaviour bonds and commonwealth recognisances
​F2
 ​Breaches of good behaviour bonds and commonwealth recognisances
​F3
 Transfer of good behaviour bonds to and from the ACT

​Section G: Conditional release, community correction and intensive correction orders
​G1
 ​Conditional release orders and community correction orders
​G2
 ​Managing conditional release orders and community correction orders
​G3
 ​Breaches of conditional release orders and community correction orders
​G4
 ​Intensive correction orders
​G5
 ​Managing intensive correction orders
​G6
 ​Breaches of intensive correction orders
​G7
 ​Commonwealth breaches

​Section H: Home detention
​H1
 ​Home detention
​H2
 ​Managing home detention
​H3
 ​Breaches of reintegration home detention

​Section I: Parole
​I1
 ​Parole
​I2
 ​Parole order management
​I3
 ​Electronic monitoring of parolees
​I4
 ​Parole breaches
​I5
 ​Home detention sanctions
​I6
 ​Outgoing interstate parole transfers
​I7
 ​Incoming interstate parole transfers
​I8
 ​Outgoing interstate parole travel permits
​I9
 ​Incoming interstate parole travel permits
​I10
 ​Overseas travel by parolees
​I11
 ​Parole for juvenile offenders

​Section J: Extended supervision orders
​J1
 ​Extended supervision orders
​J2
 ​Risk management reports
​J3
 ​ESO order management
​J4
 ​Reports to the Attorney General
​J5
 ​Emergency detention orders
​J6
 ​ESO breaches

​Section K: Pre-release
K2 Pre-release service delivery standards
​K3
 ​Statutory releases
​K4
 ​Pre-release reports
​K5
 ​Writing pre-release reports
​K6
 ​Reintegration home detention assessments
​K7
 ​Pre-release home visit assessments

Section L: Community service work
​L1
 ​Community service work
​L2 
 ​Community service work legal issues
​L3
 ​Induction and allocation
​L4
 ​Administering community service work
​L5
 ​Responding to absences from community service work
​L6
 ​Injury management
​L7
 ​Agency accreditation

Section M: Group programs
​M1
 ​Group programs
​M2
 ​Planning group programs
Last updated:

30 May 2024

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