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Community corrections policy and procedures manual

The Community Corrections Policy and Procedures Manual as at Tuesday, 11 December​​ 2018.

​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


​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


​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 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

​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
​L8
​Community service work for intensive correction orders made before 24 September 2018

Enqui​ries regarding Community Corrections policy and procedures can be sent to comcor.policy@justice.nsw.gov.au.​​

Last updated:

11 May 2023

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