Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

As the noble Lord recognised, our concern is to ensure that the safeguards are adequate. While we understand that the youth offending teams would bear in mind mitigating circumstances in making a decision about disclosure, we welcome the Minister’s idea of considering this matter further and going into some examples that we might have of how the system would operate. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Clause 191, as amended, agreed to. Schedule 34 [Section 327A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003: meaning of ““child sex offence””]: