The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which was introduced in parliament earlier this week, includes “stronger" youth community sentencing options, including greater use of location monitoring and longer daily curfews, providing "robust" alternatives to custody, according to the Home Office.
Planned changes to legislation, which will be read for the second time in the House of Commons next week, include doubling the length of curfew orders from one year to two for young offenders and increasing the daily maximum period under curfew from 16 to 20 hours within the current 112 hours per week limit.
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