Last week the Home Office published its five-year strategy, Protecting the Public and Reducing Reoffending, in which it states its aim to replace nine existing community sentences for juveniles with a single Youth Rehabilitation Order.
This would allow sentencers to choose from a "menu of interventions", making the community punishment more relevant to the offender or offence. The Home Office also said it wants to "clearly set out the purpose of juvenile sentencing". This is understood to be another element of the draft legislation and would make it clear the purpose is to prevent reoffending.
A youth justice bill was mentioned in the Queen's Speech, which sets out the Government's legislative aims, in 2004. But no bill appeared, and it was not spoken of in the legislative programme for this Parliament.
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