Teams, along with several other agencies, will be able to establish legally binding parenting contracts and ask courts to impose parenting orders on the parents of young offenders.
A Home Office spokeswoman said: "Youth offending teams are already working with parents in this way informally. All we have done is put it in statute. It won't change the workload and won't require additional resources."
Friday will also see a duty placed on courts to issue a parenting order when issuing an antisocial behaviour order and fines for parents of truants.
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