15 October 2004
Greater efforts should be made to ensure young offenders complete community sentences, MPs said this week.
A Public Accounts Committee report, published on October 12, criticised the inconsistent approach to young offender sentencing in England.
More than half the offenders on the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme fail to meet its requirements, and a quarter are re-sentenced to custody.
PAC chair Edward Leigh said: 'Young offenders need effective education and training, and the Youth Justice Board needs to look again at how well some custodial establishments provide this for those on short sentences.'
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