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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

When the Minister comes to reply, will he take the opportunity to state the Government’s intentions regarding the extension of restorative justice to children and young people? At the moment we have restorative cautions, which work reasonably well on the whole, but will the proposed youth rehabilitation orders, which we are coming to in the Bill shortly, be able to include restorative provisions? To stimulate the Minister’s imagination, if I can, I tell him that most children most of the time want to be useful. Pretty well all children easily understand what it means to put right the harm or damage that they have done.