This petition was submitted during the 2010-2015 parliament
Rejected petition The implementation of a National Discipline Act
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MPs should encourage discipline & respect in British society, establish responsibility & remove obstacles to policing. Consider:
- Ways to break up or challenge negative peer groups & relationships.
- State boarding schools.
- Curfews & digital-grounding orders – ban offenders from messaging services and social networks.
- Powers for teachers to refer children to social services and police. Allow them to detain children, move them, or separate them from friends. Powers to monitor and search them.
- Make it an offence to conceal facial features from a police officer.
- Alternatives to custodial sentences. Community / military service.
- A tax/levy for criminal damage. Bailiffs repossessing goods to fund reparations to businesses and victims. Extend liability to parents.
- A youth crime index, used to target campaigns, programs & council funding. Discipline as a measure of success for schools in failing areas. Councils able to move tenants if necessary to help improve scores.
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