To Ensure Swift Administration of Justice by:

• Setting up new systems to avoid delays in the court
• Ensuring that all court orders are started within National Standards time limits
• Ensuring that all breaches of community and/or detention and training orders are dealt with promptly

Confronting Young People with the Consequences of Their Offending by:

• Providing ‘victim awareness’ programmes, particularly for ‘victimless’ offences such as motoring offences
• Developing an assessment and treatment system for young abusers that recognises their needs but also protects the community
• Ensuring that young people are aware of their commitment to the courts through close supervision and monitoring of bail and remand conditions

Interventions That Tackle the Particular Factors That Put Young People at Risk:

• Extending the work of the mentoring scheme to offer positive role models for more young people
• Developing and implementing an effective drugs education programme based on the needs of the young people of Swindon
• Encouraging and supporting young people to engage in education and training
• Encourage constructive use of leisure as a way of avoiding offending
• Developing and delivering programmes that target specific areas of youth offending

Punishment Proportionate to the Seriousness of the Offending:

• Offering intensive packages of intervention for young people at high risk of custody
• Setting up systems to ensure that the work of the Youth Offending Team is sensitive to issues of race and gender
• Developing and agreeing sentencing guidelines for magistrates on the disposals available to the youth court
  

Reinforcing the Responsibilities of the Parents:

• Developing and implementing parenting groups and parent support groups to assist and enable parents in their role
• Encouraging more parents to be directly involved in helping their children make reparation and avoid further offending through involvement in family group conferencing and youth offending panels
• Placing more responsibility on parents to act as 'appropriate adults' for their children

Encouraging Reparation to Victims by Young Offenders:

• Developing and implementing a system of victim contact, which enables victims to be part of decisions on reparative activity
• Integrating indirect reparation into community-based projects for the benefits of Swindon
• Incorporating reparation as a core activity in the Attendance Centre