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Clackmannanshire View - Winter 2016 Unpaid Work Making a Difference From clearing ground to helping improve school playgrounds, there are Unpaid Work squads working throughout Clackmannanshire. Previously known as Community Service, Unpaid Work squad routinely complete tasks and projects which benefit the local community. Managed by the Council’s Community Justice Service the work is unpaid, demanding and enables offenders to make indirect reparation for their crimes within their local community. Whilst the very nature of this intervention is punitive, a further objective of unpaid work placements is to encourage offenders to learn and acquire skills to improve thei