Part 8: Youth justice Schedule 17: Youth rehabilitation orders
Schedule 17 makes multiple amendments to the Code to replace the term "electronic monitoring requirement" in the Code with "electronic compliance monitoring requirement." This is to distinguish electronic monitoring for the purposes of compliance from the electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement and to mirror the language used for electronic monitoring for adult community sentences.
	Part 1 of the Schedule introduces general requirements that an offender who is given an electronic monitoring requirement must comply with, including allowing the apparatus to be fitted and monitored, not interfering with its operation and keeping it in working order. New section 43A of the Code will apply to any electronic monitoring requirements imposed after the section comes into force and the new section 43A will be further amended (paragraph 12(9) and (10)) when piloted provisions come into force to reflect the change of language of electronic monitoring requirements to electronic compliance monitoring requirements.
	Part 2 of the Schedule makes amendments to the YRO provisions in the Code and in the 2008 Act.
	Paragraph 2 amends section 39 (youth default orders), replacing the term "electronic monitoring requirement" with "electronic compliance monitoring requirement" to ensure that the cross-reference to paragraphs of Schedules to the Code reflect the change in language which distinguishes electronic monitoring for the purposes of compliance from the new electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement.
	Paragraph 9 confirms that the code of practice issued by the Secretary of State will apply to data gathered from electronic compliance and whereabouts monitoring requirements imposed as part of YROs.
	This Schedule makes a number of amendments that introduce the new electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement for the YRO. Paragraph 12(13) defines this as a requirement to submit to electronic monitoring of the offender’s whereabouts and specifies how the requirement will function.
	Part 3 of the Schedule amends provisions relating to YROs with ISS in the Code, adding a mandatory electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement to the YRO with ISS and changing the maximum length of the extended activity requirement from 180 to 365 days.
	Paragraph 19 amends the YRO curfew requirement to change the maximum daily curfew hours from 16 to 20 and introduce a new weekly maximum of 112 hours.
	Paragraph 21 amends the YRO education requirement to specify that it can be imposed on offenders beyond compulsory school age, provided they are still of the age where they must participate in compulsory education or training as set out in Part 1 the Education and Skills Act 2008. Part 1 of that Act only applies to offenders who are resident in England when sentenced to the YRO. The amendment to the section makes clear that for offenders who are resident in Wales, the education requirement can still only be imposed on offenders who are still of compulsory school age.
	Part 5 of the Schedule amends the 2008 Act and the Code so that the electronic monitoring provider can no longer be the responsible officer for a YRO with electronic monitoring requirements and the responsible officer in these cases must be a member of a youth offending team or probation officer.