The admission was included in its response to the Home Affairs select committee's report on anti-social behaviour and comes after European human rights commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles criticised the Government's enthusiasm for anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos).
He recommended that the age at which children could be jailed for breaching an order should be raised to 16.
The Home Office response also said it would work with the Department for Education and Skills to address "barriers to effective engagement of social services in partnership working" on anti-social behaviour.
Also last week, the director of the Home Office's anti-social behaviour unit said critics of Asbos were "not living in the real world". In a newspaper interview, Louise Casey attacked critics including "social workers and the liberal intelligentsia".
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