Under the plans, the Scaled Approach policy would see the intensity and duration of an off-ender's community sentence depend on their risk of committing further crimes, as assessed by their Asset score.
Asset scores are based on a checklist of factors that suggest a young person may offend, including mental health needs and a lack of educational attainment. Those with a higher score are judged more likely to commit an offence.
This September, the YJB will publish the Scaled Approach, which is due to come into effect in October 2009. It is part of wider changes to the youth justice system and ties in with the introduction of the youth rehabilitation order (YRO), which will replace all existing juvenile community orders with a set of requirements. Young people with a YRO will have to meet their youth offending team a set number of times based on their Asset score.
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