Definitive guidelines on sentencing children and young people and reduction in sentence for a guilty plea published

Today, the Sentencing Council is publishing two definitive guidelines, on sentencing children and young people and reduction in sentence for a guilty plea.

The definitive guideline on sentencing children and young people will come into force on 1 June 2017.

This reduction in sentence for a guilty pleas applies regardless of the date of the offence to all individual offenders aged 18 and older and to organisations in cases where the first hearing is on or after 1 June 2017.