The Joint Committee on Human Rights, which is scrutinising the Policing and Crime Bill, found that the government is looking at ways of using civil injunctions against children instead of gang injunctions, which it does not believe are enforceable against children.
Gang injunctions, which would be introduced by the bill as part of a standard way of dealing with gangs, could prevent a person entering a specific area, associating with gang members, using or threatening violence or wearing gang-associated clothing.
Civil injunctions were piloted in Birmingham last year because county courts did not require the same level of proof to issue one as a magistrate's court would to issue an Antisocial Behaviour Order (Asbo).
They were ditched after the Court of Appeal ruled Asbos should be sought if there is sufficient evidence.
It was this ruling that led to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announcing that the government would seek to change the law.
Barbara Hopkin, of the Association of Lawyers for Children, said she does not agree with the principle of civil injunctions.
"It is much better to put things into effect that give children things to do and makes them feel like valued members of society," she said.
"Children are always going to congregate in some way and if they are banned from one area they will just move on to another area."
A Home Office spokesman said: "We are considering whether we can amend the way that civil injunctions work to enable this provision to be used for under 18s or to put in place an alternative civil tool for managing under 18s."
