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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

Can the Minister help us in this situation? If a member of a youth offending team were to go to court and say, ““I’m sorry, we weren’t able to carry out the programme. We had a contract with the offender, and we had every hope that he would complete it, but we had no unpaid work that he was able to do, we didn’t have the resources for the programme for alcohol abuse and various things have gone wrong. We think he might benefit from a second referral order””, surely it should be open to the court, as a matter of discretion, to say, ““If that is the view of the youth offending team, we accept it. In the circumstances you have outlined to us, we will allow a further referral order””. Would that not be fair?