The Home Office intends to create a single sentence, the juvenile rehabilitation order, to give magistrates the ability to tailor sentences.
The draft bill will also enable the Government to add organisations such as local authority housing teams to the list of those that form youth offending teams.
And the Home Office plans to create an intensive supervision and surveillance order for serious offenders.
The plans were revealed in the Government's response to the Audit Commission's Youth Justice 2004 report.
www.youth-justice-board.gov.uk.
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