Community Payback is a London Probation Partnership between the Metropolitan Police and local authorities.
Quadron is working in partnership with its Client, the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, to provide training opportunities for offenders working on Community Payback projects with the objective of giving them the chance of long term employment and reducing rates of reoffending. The scheme started in June 2008 and two offenders have since been taken on by Quadron.
Ben Binnell, Quadron's Senior Contract Manager for the area said: "Quadron is very pleased to be working closely with the Probation Services in a number of the Parks in the Borough for example Bishops and Hammersmith Park. The Probation Services team members work closely with our staff in the Parks in order to improve standards. A typical example of work carried our would include rose pruning and path edging.
The partnership works well because the teams are enthusiastic and willing to put in hard work. In fact the scheme has worked so well that we will be increasing the number of teams that we use. Quadron has also offered work to two of the members from one of the groups and they have contributed significantly to our team in Hammersmith and Fulham. I'm sure that should progress continue at its current rate then more members from the Probation team will be offered work with us. I am confident that our partnership will continue to develop over the term of the contract."