Exempel på curfew

• We do not keep records of the length of previous curfews.

• Local child curfews are a new provision which will help a local authority develop its community safety strategy.

• The severe economic and social decline caused by closures and curfews has compounded the problem.

• They include antisocial behaviour orders, child safety orders, local child curfews and statutory crime prevention partnerships between local authorities and the police.

• We are opposed in principle to local child curfews.

• If there are to be general child curfews, police officers will have to stop and question young children they see about at night.

• The trials show that the curfews are increasingly valued by the courts as a flexible and effective punishment.

• They are suffering from virtually round-the-clock curfews which have gone on for months.

• Local authorities should have the power to introduce local child curfews to address the problem of unsupervised, disruptive children on the streets late at night.

• Local child curfews are a permissive rather than a mandatory power.

• The possibility of carrying identification cards and of curfews on vehicles is carefully considered both generally and in particular areas.

• Blanket curfews will needlessly penalise law-abiding youngsters who are out for legitimate reasons, such as playing sport or other after-school activities.

• However, as we have already heard, the proposal to impose curfews on those under 16 years of age is much more complicated.

• Curfews do not work; they have never been used.

• We need to be persuaded of the justice of child curfews and that parental responsibility orders will work.