FOI Request - Community Payback Orders

Request 101002238408

1. How many community payback orders were issued by Moray Court?

2. What was the total number of hours issued by the Court in a recording period is financial or calendar year.

3. How many hours of payback work was undertaken in the individual areas of Elgin Keith and Buckie.

4. What payback work programmes we're undertaken in Buckie and how many hours of work were used?

5. Can you provide details/examples of work undertaken in the Buckie area?

Response 23-08-2019

Q 1 and 2

2016/17
Number of orders - 325
Number of hours - 34329

2017/18
Number of orders - 357
Number of hours - 35854

Q3 - we do not record the number of hours undertaken in any  individual area. This information is therefore exempt under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information Not Held. 

Q4- as question 3 - sometimes a job can last several weeks on and off others can be a day, or just a few hours depending on the nature of the task.

Q5- Examples of work in the Buckie area includes the following;-  making and erecting coastal path signs in Moray including for the Buckie area; maintenance/clearing of bushes etc of coastal paths in Moray including  the Buckie area; house removals; gardening work etc for individual recipients in Moray including in the Buckie area;  various jobs for the Burnie Day Centre, Buckie; various jobs for Phoenix House in Buckie;  work for the Out of Darkness theatre Company; work for Millbank Primary School, Buckie; work for the Sue Ryder charity Shop in Buckie; clearing the steps from the main street to the harbour in Buckie; assisting the community warden in Buckie; trees replanted around Moray from Buckie; Beach Clean Portknockie to Cullen area; clean up after travellers left -Portgordon area; painting houses for vulnerable individuals in Moray including the Buckie area; cleaning and painting of a house in the Buckie area which had been damaged by a fire; moving chairs for a church in Buckie.