Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill
10:00 am
Brendan Finegan: It does pose a challenge. We think that the balance is right and that is part of our feedback. There are young people who will cause harm to their communities and action needs to be taken. In terms of premises closure, you are absolutely right, but the challenge is for the Government and for local authorities to ensure that they live up to the provisions in regard to places to go and things to do for children. If we are to provide places to go and things to do for young people—and premises will be around that location—it behoves us to ensure that those premises are safe, do not create antisocial behaviour and are pro-social rather than antisocial.