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<p>The legislative reforms announced in A Smarter Approach to Sentencing White Paper
will be brought forward in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Bill. This
bill was introduced on 9 March and, as confirmed in the Queen’s Speech, has been carried
forward to the next session.</p><p> </p><p>For the first time, sentences over four
years will be able to become spent, and rehabilitation periods will be reduced for
community and custodial sentences of less than four years. These changes will come
into effect once the PCSC Bill has received Royal Assent.</p><p> </p><p>Work is also
underway on the non-legislative reforms set out in the White Paper. We are on track
to deliver the Pre-Sentence Report pilot on time, and the Community Sentence Treatment
Requirement Programme is now operating in courts across 14 areas in England, with
eight more to come online during 2021. The Call for Evidence on Neurodiversity also
set out in the White Paper closed on 15 January 2021, and evidence from this is being
reviewed with a full report due this Summer.</p>
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