Controversial measures in the bill include fixed-penalty notices for parents in truancy cases, police powers for fast-track child curfews and increased powers for councils and housing associations to evict families.
The National Children's Bureau said that many of the measures are "unhelpful and unworkable" and will "reinforce negative perceptions of young people as troublemakers."
www.publications.parliament.
uk/pa/cm200203/cmbills/083/ 2003083.htm.
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