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Offenders serving short custodial sentences will now be subject to supervision in the community and if they do not comply with the supervision requirements magistrates will have new powers to deal with them, including sending offenders back to custody for up to a fortnight.  This will mean magistrates will play a crucial role in the rehabilitation of offenders and is just one of the ways the role of magistrates is being maximised to reflect modern society and to tackle stubbornly high levels of reoffending.

• Damian Green: new rehabilitation powers for magistrates
• No education, no chance of a job (2nd item)
• Recruiting ex-service personnel to teach in poorly performing schools may not be such a ‘wild’ idea after all
• Civitas:  We need a policy that delivers something between the 2 extremes of ‘giving them the key’ and ‘throwing it away’ (2nd item)
• Search begins to find best organisations to tackle high re-offending rates
• Funding boost for programmes that reduce re-offending