Referral orders
This guidance provides updated information to youth offending teams, community panel members and court staff on new provisions on referral orders that came into force in April 2009.
It outlines how the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 gives more flexibility and allows wider use of referral orders through:
- a discretionary power to impose a referral order on young offenders convicted for the second time of an offence and who plead guilty, where they had not previously had a referral order
- a power to extend or revoke a referral order by up to three months in the interests of justice
- a discretionary power to make a second referral order on the recommendation of a youth offending team in exceptional circumstances.
Hard copies of the guidance are available on request from the Youth Justice Board on 0870 120 7400.
- Referral order guidance (PDF 0.75mb 114 pages)
- Referral order guidance in Welsh (PDF 1.48mb 114 pages)
Hard copies of the guidance are available on request from the Youth Justice Board on 0870 120 7400.