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Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

moved Amendment No. 114: 114: After Clause 123, insert the following new Clause— ““Anti-social behaviour orders: reporting restrictions (1) The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37) is amended as follows. (2) Omit sections 1(10D) and (10E) (anti-social behaviour orders) and 1C(9C) (orders on conviction in criminal proceedings). (3) In subsection (9) of section 1C (orders on conviction in criminal proceedings), omit ““(10D), (10E).”” (4) The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c. 12) is amended as follows. (5) After section 49(2)(d) (restrictions on reports of proceedings in which children or young persons are concerned) insert— ““(e) any proceedings under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998””.”” The noble Baroness said: My Lords, this amendment takes us back to a matter that this House has discussed and debated many times with the Government: whether people under 18 should be subject to reporting restrictions when anti-social behaviour orders are imposed on them. As the Minister knows, if a young person commits a criminal offence, there are reporting restrictions. Some 10 years ago, when the Government brought in this different system for anti-social behaviour orders, they gave us a large list of reasons why they should be reported on because it was felt that naming and shaming would work. The fact is that it has not worked. What evidence does the Minister have that naming and shaming has reduced the number of young people who have been subject to anti-social behaviour orders? Can he further tell me all of the difficult effects that that creates for a young person in their community? Does it help with their rehabilitation? I remind him that the Government said that they would like to rural-proof all their policies. For young people from rural areas and small towns where everybody knows them, reporting the matter in the local paper has an extremely negative effect on exactly the sort of rehabilitation and positive aspects of any order that the Government might have envisaged. There are much greater experts on these issues in the form of my noble friends Lady Linklater and Lady Walmsley, who I hope will both speak to the amendment, so I shall not take up more of the House’s time. I beg to move.