The guidance, issued last week, states that people given orders should be named and that local media should be encouraged to run stories about them.
But Article 40 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the UK has signed up to, states that any person under 18 accused or convicted of an offence has the right "to have his or her privacy fully respected at all stages of proceedings".
The guidance refers to a test case where Brent Council won the right to name several young people who had been given orders. The Home Office believes this gives it the legal footing it needs to issue the guidance, but crime-reduction charity Nacro has questioned the legitimacy of the move.
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