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Community Order (Review by Specified Courts) Order 2007

I would have liked to hear a little bit more about the Salford and Liverpool pilot. First, how often did the courts find it useful to review the community order? Was it on a monthly, six-monthly or three-monthly basis, or what? Secondly, are there are sufficient resources for, for example, the production of reports by the Probation Service? I know only too well how hard pressed it is, and I can imagine that having to produce a review report more frequently than every six or 12 months would be a considerable burden. Thirdly, one of the ideas behind the whole principle of the order was that it would cut down on breach proceedings. Has that happened in Liverpool and Salford? Have there been fewer breach proceedings than in the past as a percentage of the orders that were made? The issue is still rather tentative. The pilots have operated for a period in two courts. The whole system then comes to an end and a new pilot for 12 court centres comes forward. It smacks of a lack of any positive conclusions drawn from the original pilots in Salford and in Liverpool. I would like to hear more about the results.