Policy background Youth Justice Youth Rehabilitation Orders
The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (the "2008 Act") introduced the Youth Rehabilitation Order ("YRO"), a new generic community sentence for youths now set out in sections 173 to 199 of the Code. It provides courts with a choice of 18 requirements from which a sentence can be designed. The YRO also provides for two high-intensity requirements (Intensive Supervision and Surveillance ("ISS") or Intensive Fostering) that are set as alternatives to custody for the most serious offenders.
	Section 161 will make the following changes to the YRO:
a standalone electronic whereabouts monitoring requirement will be added to the list of available requirements;
the curfew requirement will be amended to raise the maximum number of daily hours from 16 to 20 while retaining a weekly maximum of 112 hours;
youth offending teams or probation staff will be made the Responsible Officers for YROs with electronic compliance monitoring requirements;
the maximum length of the extended activity requirement of a YRO with Intensive Supervision and Surveillance will be extended from 180 days to 365 days;
a mandatory location monitoring requirement will be added to YROs with Intensive Supervision and Surveillance; and
the age limit of the education requirement will be raised so that it is the same as the age of compulsory education and training, rather than compulsory school age.
	These measures make provision for the Government to pilot items (a), (d) and (e) above and to restrict their use if necessary, in light of evidence of use in practice.