Question follow-through · 110621
Community Protection Notices: Children
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered the merits of allowing police to issue Community Protection Warnings and Notices to 10-16 year-olds.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 3 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 5 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she has considered the merits of allowing police to issue Community Protection Warnings and Notices to 10-16 year-olds.
5 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2026
Answer published
Breach of a CPN is a criminal offence. Lowering the age that someone can receive a CPN from 16 to 10 years old risks putting young people into the criminal justice system.While early and informal prevention-based approaches should generally be the first s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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