Edward Leigh, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, which publishedthe report last week, said the Home Office should "pull itselftogether".
The Home Office should "take stock of measures already available on thestatute book, consider whether all are necessary and how to make themeasier to understand and use at local level", the report said.
The report revealed that in recent years there has been a strong focuson enforcement measures such as Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (Asbos)with little attention paid to the underlying causes of anti- socialbehaviour.
Joyce Moseley, chief executive of Rainer, welcomed calls for a fullevaluation of different measures.
Madeleine Tearse, policy and change director of the Children's RightsAlliance for England, urged the Government to rethink its policy ofusing Asbos for children. "Asbos were designed for adults but are nowdisproportionately applied to children, many of whom have disabilities,"she said.
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