What action it will be taking to tackle youth crime and disorder.

On 26 June, Cabinet agreed a 10 point action plan to tackle the problem of persistent offending, to enhance community safety and to improve the effectiveness of Scotland's youth justice systems.The review recommends a tiered approach in tackling youth crime:To tackle persistent offending: A small number of persistent offenders are responsible for a disproportionate amount of youth crime. Action will be targeted at this group, including:1. A pilot of Specialist Children's Hearings to fast-track persistent offenders under 16.2. A Youth Courts feasibility project for persistent offenders aged 16 and 17, with flexibility to deal with 15-year-olds.3. Reviewing the scope for using Restriction of Liberty Orders, Anti Social Behaviour Orders and Community Service Orders for persistent offenders;To promote community safety and order: youth disorder blights our communities. We need a range of ways to deal with disorder and offending in the community. This will include:4. A Safer Scotland police campaign on high visibility policing, covering Youth Disorder, to increase visibility and provide community re-assurance.5. Spread best practice, and establish firm standards, for community based projects funded through the Action Programme, Better Neighbourhood Services Fund programmes and Making Communities Safer programmes.6. Consideration of a Scottish wide application of a system of police warnings, and a detailed exploration of restorative cautions approach, perhaps through piloting. 7. Re-configuring the secure accommodation available nationally to provide groups of girl-only accommodation, further consideration of additional places and improving the range and provision of programmes in secure units. To promote the effectiveness of the system: While many aspects of the youth justice system are working well, there are some key pressures which must be addressed:8. A set of national standards to operate between local authorities, the criminal justice system and Children's Hearings, covering reporting, timescales and follow up.9. Promote parental responsibility, through voluntary measures and in the longer term to consider the feasibility of introducing further statutory obligations on parents.10. Measures to increase the speed of referral to the courts will be considered, and introduction of specific targets discussed with the judiciary.The report and statement has been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre.