The Youth Taskforce Action Plan includes the measure to create 20 junior family intervention projects during the next three years.
The projects will be based on the adult family intervention projects that have been piloted across England. Like the adult equivalent, the junior projects will require young people to sign contracts agreeing to change their behaviour and assign them with key workers.
The key workers will try to ensure the young people stick to the contract and get any support they need, such as drug treatment.
But if the 10- to 19-year-olds taking part in the project refuse to improve their behaviour they could be given antisocial behaviour orders or individual support orders to make them co-operate.
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