The charity says the move, which is being considering in the government’s consultation More Effective Responses to Anti-Social Behaviour, could put vulnerable children at risk.
It forms part of a proposed streamlined "direction power" for police officers and police community support officers to disperse young people, which will also give them the power to require a young person, aged at least 10, to leave a specific area and not return for up to 48 hours.
Barnardo’s chief executive Anne Marie Carrie said: "If police send children back to abusive or unsafe households or move them on without consideration for the reasons behind their antisocial behaviour they could be placed in greater danger."
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