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Recommendation 7
7
Rejected
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Consider establishing an overarching guideline or guidance for sentencing female offenders.
Recommendation
We recommend that the Sentencing Council considers whether an overarching guideline or guidance for sentencing female offenders is required.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government explicitly rejected the recommendation for an overarching sentencing guideline for female offenders, stating that the sentencing code already requires Pre-Sentence Reports (PSRs) and that they are addressing the issue through the ongoing PSR pilot, which includes female offenders as a priority cohort.
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Government Response
Rejected
HM Government · verbatim extract
Rejected
We accept this recommendation. The Sentencing Council will consider whether the evidence would support separate guidance for female offenders as part of the Sentencing Council’s five-year strategy (strategic objective three), published last year. This issue is being given active consideration as part of the Council’s ongoing work on equality and diversity and an exploration of the evidence will form part of the review of expanded explanations in guidelines to be commenced later in 2022.
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