Bail Supervision

Interventions suitable for

People on bail

Programme title and provider

Bail supervision

Details of all Specific national or local scheme/intervention(s) available

Bail supervision is intended to provide a robust and credible alternative to remand where individuals are assessed as needing a level of supervision and support to meet their bail conditions. Bail Supervision is a social work or third sector service whereby individuals who would otherwise be held on remand are released on bail on the condition that they meet with a bail supervisor a specified number of times a week.

Possible Outcomes

To:

• Reduce the number of individuals remanded to custody
• Encourage greater confidence in the use of non-custodial disposals by sentencers as a result of the experience of successful completion of periods on bail supervision
• Provide appropriate support to individuals in the community, which minimises disruption to families, employment and housing, while ensuring compliance with bail conditions.

Process for Assessment and/or inclusion in scheme/intervention

Criminal Justice Social Work, in collaboration with partners involved in a case as appropriate, should identify individuals, who might otherwise be remanded to custody but based on assessed need and risk can with the support of bail supervision, be safely released on bail.

Where no specific scheme/intervention is available, is there capacity to provide a bespoke service based on judicial request?

Bail Supervision can be provided at present as a bespoke service on judicial request.