Baroness Scotland, the Home Office minister responsible for youth justice, said the Government plans to bring in legislation to introduce a youth rehabilitation order "shortly" that will give sentencers a choice of alternatives to custody.
The idea is similar to proposals in a draft version of a youth justice bill circulated during the previous parliament. Tim Bateman, senior youth crime policy development officer at crime-reduction charity Nacro, said the idea is to replace all the existing community sentences with a single order that can be tailored to the individual offender.
The idea has been welcomed by crime-reduction groups. But Pauline Batstone, chair of the Association of Youth Offending Team Managers, questioned the impact of some of the other proposals expected in the bill.
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