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Compensation Magistrates Court
Taking Offences Into Consideration
HM Prison Service Duty of Care
A Youth Rehabilitation Order (YRO) is an order imposed by a Court which is able to be given to young people under the age of 18 years old when they are being sentenced for having committed a criminal offence.
A Youth Rehabilitation Order will only apply to criminal offences committed by an individual under the age of 18 years old.
The maximum period of time for which a Youth Rehabilitation Order will last is three years.
A Youth Rehabilitation Order will usually contain one or more requirements which must be adhered to by that young offender. These requirements may include the requirement for the young person to meet with a worker from the Youth Offending Team or the young person may be required to comply with other activities examples of which are unpaid work, a curfew or specific conditions on where they can live.
The full list of requirements which can be imposed on a youth offender under a Youth Rehabilitation Order are as follows:
Supervision
Activity
Programme
Curfew
Attendance centre
Education
Mental Health Treatment
Residence
Local Authority Residence
Drug Treatment
Drug Testing
Prohibited Activity
Exclusion
Intensive Supervision and Surveillance
A Youth Rehabilitation Order will usually be made up of one or more of the above requirements.
The number of times a youth offender will be required to be seen by a member of the youth offending team will depend on the level of risk they will be deemed to pose following their assessment under the scaled approach used by youth offending team workers.
For Youth Rehabilitation Orders which include a supervision, activity or programme requirement the Youth Offending Team Worker will work out a plan called a Youth Rehabilitation Order Plan.
The main aspects of the plan will be concerned with how many sessions the youth offender must attend each month and for how long the sessions will continue for. Information concerning each separate requirements of the Youth Rehabilitation Order will also be provided for in the plan.
The purpose of the requirements of a Youth Rehabilitation Order are to help that young person think about the following factors:
Their behaviour
The harm offending can do the victim
The harm offending can do to them and the other people involved
Reparation or other work with the victim or victims
A plan for the future and a plan on how they will deal with any problems of difficulties which they face
How they will be supported to access certain services
The role of the Youth Offending Team Worker in this process will be to enable and help the young person to understand what it is they need to do. Furthermore the Youth Offending Team Worker will talk and collaborate with the other agencies which may be involved in monitoring aspects of the Youth Rehabilitation Order.
If a young person fails to cooperate with the requirements set out in the Youth Rehabilitation Order they will:
Be asked to explain within 24 hours by telephone or letter the reason they have failed to comply with the requirements
If the reason they give is deemed unacceptable they will be issued with a warning
If the same individual receives three warnings they will have breached the Youth Rehabilitation Order and will be returned to court
Depending on the reasons for the breach and the Youth Offending Team Worker’s recommendation and the level of risk of the individual the court can decide to amend or revoke the Youth Rehabilitation Order.
The Youth Rehabilitation Order will be a continually evolving process meaning that throughout the supervision the Youth Offending Team Worker will continually asses the individual’s risk of re-offending and the risk of serious harm.
Therefore if the risk increases the Youth Offending Team Worker can increase the number of monthly visits and if the risk decreases so can the number of monthly visits.
If the young person is continually doing well and responding well to the requirements under the order then the Youth Offending Team Worker will be able to discuss early discharge of the order will the court.
The Court will be unlikely to agree to the early discharge of the order unless the following can be shown:
That are the requirements have been completed
That the individual has completed at least half of the order
That the risk of re-offending and the risk of serious harm has reduced or is deemed to be low
That the individual has followed all of the instructions which have been given by the Youth Offending Team Worker
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