Written evidence to be reported to the House

Part of Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 5:15 pm on 16 October 2007.

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Jan Berry: One of the dangers of the final warning scheme and cautioning has been a reluctance to put a young person before a court, which I fully understand. However, sometimes that is to put off the inevitable, and if you continue to introduce new schemes that ratchet up previous schemes, you might not address the real problem.

There needs to be clarity in the provisions, which is why we tend to support rehabilitation orders, because they bring all things under one heading but still give youth offending teams and others the option to choose the most appropriate sanction for a person in their particular circumstances.