Antisocial Behaviour: Individual support orders get a boost

The money follows recent figures revealing that just seven individual support orders have been given out despite 2,057 juveniles receiving ASBOs since the orders were introduced in 1999. Individual support orders require young people to attend activities to address the causes of their antisocial behaviour, and are designed to be given alongside ASBOs.

Bob Ashford, head of prevention at the Youth Justice Board, admitted that use of the support orders is "incredibly low", but added that youth offending teams will already be working with many of the juveniles who had been given ASBOs.

The one-off funding for the support orders will be distributed to youth offending teams on a case-by-case basis. Each individual support order costs about 2,000 to administer.