attendance centre

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attendance centre

in England, a place at which young offenders are required to attend regularly instead of going to prison. They are usually run by the police and the sessions try to instil discipline and social skills.

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Three of the assaults took place at the attendance centre, against one boy who was "last back to the showers" after a cross-country run, the jury heard.

Ex-police chief given 12 years for child sex abuse; Still protesting his innocence, paedophile is led away to jail

Doing it by the book: The Bilston attendance centre record book kept by West Midlands Police Museum curator Dave Cross, inset.

'Weekend school' was 1950s justice; FROM THE ARCHIVES

Some of the requirements available to the courts are only rarely used; alcohol treatment, mental health treatment, residence, exclusion, prohibited activity and the attendance centre requirements are all in this position.

The community order and the suspended sentence order--three years on

TWO local teenagers accused of stealing cigarettes worth pounds 876 from a Llandudno newsagents were yesterday ordered to go to an attendance centre for 30 hours.

'Bold as brass' teens stole from shop; WALES

The Coventry Junior Mixed Attendance Centre in Whitefriars Lane, works with 10 to 17-year-olds who have committed crimes.

Young offenders' unit is highly commended

The origins of the attendance centre are traced back to mid-nineteenth century and the search for an alternative to imprisonment for juvenile offenders.

Part Time Punishment? The Origins and Development of Senior Attendance Centers

Kirklees Magistrates' Court in Huddersfield sentenced him to a community order with rehabilitation activities and 15 hours at an attendance centre.

'Vulnerable' man broke court order

The officer also found time in the early 1980s to run the Wrexham Attendance Centre, then held at facilities at St Joseph's Catholic High School at weekends.

THE PAEDOPHILE INSPIRED TO BE A COP BY DIXON OF DOCK GREEN

During the trial the jury heard the defendant ran a Home Office attendance centre in Wrexham in the 1980s where tearaway teenagers would be given a military-style "short, sharp shock" regime of physical exercise, drill parades, and woodwork classes on Saturday afternoons.

Men gave Oscar performances if they lied about abuse, court told

The following cases were heard at Cardiff Magistrates' Court: | Liam Jordan Southall, 18, of Harris Avenue, Rumney, Cardiff, was put on a community order with 36 hours at an attendance centre for stealing a bag of tools worth PS800, interfering with a Renault van and possessing cannabis.

LOOK WHO'S BEEN IN COURT

Callum David Young, 18, of Moray Road, Norton, given a 12-month community order with an attendance centre requirement, a curfew requirement and a supervision requirement and ordered to pay PS500 compensation for criminal damage and breaching a conditional discharge.

COURT IN BRIEF

She was given a further six months to a suspended prison sentence she is serving together with a three-month curfew, a community order and an Attendance Centre requirement.