Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 15th February 2011.
The first thing is to have increased early intervention to avoid their needing a second chance in the first place. Then we need to ensure that young offenders are offered more of an opportunity to pay back their victims and communities, and to incentivise local partners to reduce youth offending and reoffending by using new payment-by-results models.