Book Review : Community Service by Offenders John Sussex
| Date | 01 March 1975 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455057502200110 |
| Published date | 01 March 1975 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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minimum
standard
&dquo;for
adults
wishing
to
take
parties
of
young
people
on
walking
and
camping
expeditions
in
mountainous
areas in
buzzer
conditions&dquo;.
The
winter
certificate
is
the
responsibility
of the
Scottish
Mountain
Leadership
Training
Board
and
can
only
be
assessed
North
of
the
Border.
I
could
find
no
reference
to
a
BCU
Assistant
Instructor’s
Certificate
as
the
basic
BCU
award
for
Group
Instruction
is
the
Senior
Instructor’s
Award,
and
this
is
only
available
to
those
who
hold
a
proficency
certificate,
and
who
then
completed
a
BCL
two
day
training
course.
They
must
also
hold
a
Royal
Lifesaving
Society
Bronze
medallion.
If
therefore
these
are
the
minimum
and
suggested
national
standards,
and
bearing
in
mind
the
great
emphasis
being
placed
at
present
on
adventure
activities
in
intermediate
treatment
schemes,
it
appears
critical
that
appropriate
safety
standards
should
be
observed,
and
therefore
the
leaders
of
such
groups
within
the
Probation
&
After-Care
Service
should
have
at
least
the
minimum
suggested
qualifications.
Prudence
demands
that
such
standards
should
be
insisted
upon
by
the
Probation
Commit-
tees,
who
need
also
to
make
provision
for
such
specialist
training
and
assessment.
REFERENCES
1.
Safety
in
Outdoor
Education—County
Council
of
the
West
Riding
of
Yorkshire
Education
Department.
2.
Safety
in
Outdoor
Pursuits-Department
of
Education
and
Science.
3.
Syllabus
of
West
Riding
Outdoor
Pursuits
Centre, Bewerly
Park.
4.
British
Association
of
Caving
Instructor’s
Syllabus
of
Cave
Leaders
and
Cave
Instructor’s
Certificate.
5.
Mountain
Leadership
Training
Board’s
Syllabus
of
Mountain
Leader-
ship
and
Mountain
Instructor’s
Certificate.
6.
Syllabus
of
the
British
Canoe
Union
Proficiency
Scheme.
7.
Syllabus
of
the
RYA/NSSA
Proficiency
Schemes.
BOOK
REVIEW
Community
Service
by
Offenders
John
Sussex
Barry
Rose
Publishers,
£1.15
This
is
an
account
by
the
organiser
of
the
Kent
experimental
project.
It
is
written
on
an
essentially
practical
level
and
as
such
will
be
of
imme-
diate
value
to
all
new
community
service
organisers.
The
extent
to
which
community
service
is
a
very
&dquo;different&dquo;
activity
i
has
not
yet
been
fully
realised
by
the
Probation
and
After-Care
Service.
It
certainly
opens
up
spheres
of
non-
custodial
treatment
with
far-reaching
possibilities.
But
we
still
have
a
lot
of
thinking
to
do
about
the
concept
and
practice
of
community
service
by
offenders.
This
book
also
helps
to
get
this
think-
ing
under
way
but
is
more
practical
than
profound.
Royalties
are
donated
by
the
author
to
NAPO.
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