Recommendation 143

Looking at historical precedents, the Probation Institute wrote that “specialist teams used to manage the transition” for young adults “with reduced caseloads and focussed training”, and they told us that they “should be reinstated”. 272 T2A also told us about “specialised probation orders tailored to the specific needs of young adults designed to optimise compliance and completion of sentence” as “tested in Greater Manchester in the 2000s with the creation of Intensive Community Orders which were demonstrated to be beneficial to young adults”. 273