Remand to local authority accommodation (summary imprisonable offences)

You are remanded to local authority accommodation until ………… Until then you will be the responsibility of/looked after by ………… [insert designated local authority details].

We are not granting you bail because:

  1. there are substantial grounds to believe that you will commit an offence on bail, because this offence was committed on bail [and/or]
  2. there are substantial grounds to believe you would commit an offence that is likely to cause, or make ………… [insert details of associated person]. fear physical or mental injury [and/or]
  3. we believe you will not come back to court because of your previous failure to do so [and/or]
  4. you have previously been released on conditional bail and have not kept to those conditions and we have substantial grounds to believe that:
    1. you will not come back to court [and/or]
    2. you will commit an offence [and/or]
    3. you will interfere with witnesses or obstruct the course of the case [and/or]
  5. we are satisfied that it should be refused for your own welfare [and/or]
  6. you are already serving a custodial sentence [and/or]
  7. we are satisfied that we do not have enough information to decide if you can be released.

You must come back to court on ………… at am/pm.

[If applicable] You will be remanded in local authority accommodation with the following conditions …………

[State in exact terms what the conditions will be, e.g.

  • to live where directed by the Youth Justice Services/local authority
  • where they cannot live
  • reporting to a police station
  • non-contact with witnesses
  • any other necessary condition.]

If you breach any of the conditions, you will be arrested and brought back to court and we may decide that you should be remanded to Youth Detention Accommodation.