The Social Justice Policy Group, which is headed by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, published its Breakthrough Britain study yesterday (10 July).
Proposals include erasing juvenile treatment orders for drugs offences after five years, setting up the residential centres, and introducing juvenile drug courts for addicted teenagers.
The report claims that "non-judgmental, politically correct and scientifically inadequate" drug education programmes in schools are doing more harm than good and demands a "proper" pilot of drug testing in schools.
Other proposals in the study include asking 14-year-olds to design social action projects.
- See Leader, p13.
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