The Home Office has been meeting the sector to discuss the the bill, and officials are understood to be sympathetic to further revisions after the document is published in early summer.
The main youth justice proposal is expected to be the introduction of a generic community sentence for juveniles - the youth rehabilitation order - similar to the order that applies to adults. Chris Stanley, head of policy at crime-reduction charity Nacro, said: "We've been urging them to have a standalone intensive supervision and surveillance order, not as part of the generic sentence."
This was one of the proposals in draft youth justice legislation circulated in 2004.
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