When someone is found guilty of an offence, an Order is made by the court which states what punishment that person must receive.

However, when young people first get into trouble, behave antisocially or commit a minor offence, they can be dealt with outside of the court system and the police or local authority can use a variety of pre-court sanctions. These include:

• Acceptable behaviour contracts 
• Antisocial behaviour orders 
• Local child curfews 
• Child Safety Orders
• Reprimands for minor first time offences 

Alternatively, if a young person has committed a second minor offence, the police can then use a final warning.

Each of these pre-court orders have been introduced to prevent young people from entering the Youth Justice System too early, whilst still offering them the help and support they need to stop offending.

Contact us:

The Halton and Warrington Youth Offending Team has now moved from Grosvenor House to:

Halton and Warrington Youth Offending Team
Unit 10, Turnstone Business Park
Mulberry Avenue
Widnes
Cheshire
WA8 0WN

Telephone 0151 495 584 0 (there are 4 incoming lines. You can replace the last 0 with 1, 2 or 3)