Vincent McAvinny
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first heard May 2026
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Well, David Lammy, who is the Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister, has introduced this Youth Justice White Paper.
And you've mentioned there the sort of headline-grabbing announcement that there could be fines of up to £1,000 and new powers to jail parents in the most extreme cases under these parenting orders.
to try to tackle essentially sort of criminal behaviour where a child is under 16, has been convicted of an offence, and in some cases even 16, sort of 17-year-olds as well, if they think it can prevent future offences.
So what they are trying to do, they say, is that they're trying to boost the number of these orders being used.
They say they have fall dramatically from more than 1,000 in 2009 to just 33 in 2023.
And they're also bringing in a sort of other range of measures that they want to look at.
Much of it is about piloting these things called youth intervention courts, which brings together justices, youth services, specialist support and parents as well.
So there is a kind of
360 approach to tackling what's going wrong early in people's lives.
Yeah, that's right.
They are trying to do that.
The UK prison population as a whole is really a huge number.
It's basically beyond the capacity of the prison's estate.
So most sentences that you receive, you'll only serve about half of them in the UK now, some down to doing a third, depending on what they are.
But part of what they want to do
is reduce the amount of custodial sentences.
They want to have community sentences instead.
They say for some violent offenders, it is unavoidable there will be custodial sentences, but they want to end unnecessary remand in custody for children
where they're put in prison, for instance, while awaiting trial or sentencing.
So they're hoping that they could reduce the youth prison population by about 20%, they say, if they scale back on how they're using it.
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