10,000 hours’ unpaid work by Blackburn criminals

11:00pm Friday 12th October 2012 in News

CRIMINALS sentenced to unpaid work by the courts have been helping maintain the QE II Jubilee Biological Heritage Site, near Blackburn.

Offenders, supervised by Lancashire Probation Trust, have cut hedges, picked litter, strimmed over-grown vegetation, and removed ragwort from the site, part of Feniscowles and Pleasington war memorial recreation ground.

The team have tidied the area during the summer, and will return to maintain the area once again before winter. Since April 2012, offenders in the Blackburn with Darwen area have completed almost 10,000 hours of unpaid work.

If paid at minimum wage, this is the equivalent of almost £62,000.

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Mothernature says...
11:29pm Fri 12 Oct 12

So the council have saved £62,000. Wonder how much it cost to get the offenders to court, provide legal representatives and PPE for the community payback. How many people have lost their jobs, so that these offenders can do the work for nothing?

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Happy-Dude says...
4:47am Sat 13 Oct 12

I agree with mothernature, but better still if council are saving £62,000 why not get people who are on benefits to do these jobs for the benefits, it will save even more money and help the decent people who have lost their jobs and stuck on benefits get experience, if the workshy miss one day they lose one days benefit saving the country money.

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Major Tom says...
2:32pm Sat 13 Oct 12

What offences did they commit? Throwing a tomato in the recycle bin probably.

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shytalk says...
7:05pm Sat 13 Oct 12

Happy-Dude wrote:
I agree with mothernature, but better still if council are saving £62,000 why not get people who are on benefits to do these jobs for the benefits, it will save even more money and help the decent people who have lost their jobs and stuck on benefits get experience, if the workshy miss one day they lose one days benefit saving the country money.
Why not bang up the criminals or give them the birch and pay the minimum wage to those who are unemployed through no fault of their own to do the job..Even if only on a short term contract? Workfare is slave labour, A bit like paying for car insurance and then being told to fix your car yourself if you have an accident..If you have worked, payed national insurance and tax.then you should not have to work to get your benefits as benefits are what you pay your national insurance for.

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jack denials says...
3:24pm Mon 15 Oct 12

10,000.... is that it? .... I thought that it would have been a lot more than that.

After watching the TV programme on Shad.... I thought they would have had 10,000 just in that area.

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