The intensive supervision and surveillance order would have acted as a last chance for young offenders on the verge of imprisonment. But Home Office officials have abandoned plans after finding it was too difficult to draft legislation.
Diana Luchford, head of the youth justice unit at the department, said at Nacro's youth justice conference last week: "We were proposing a standalone intensive supervision and surveillance order, but we have had to park it because we can't get it as a statutory concept."
She added it is Home Office policy that the intensive supervision and surveillance programme, on which the order would have been based, should be used as a last step before custody.
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