It's not big, and it's not clever. But I'm pretty sure that social workers and youth offending team members up and down the country are today muttering those immortal words "I told you so" after the sentencing advisory panel admitted that sentencing young people who breach their Asbo to a custodial sentence rarely makes sense.
In what appears to be a somewhat belated acknowledgement of the negative impact of Asbo breaches on the child prison population in England and Wales, the panel's proposals for new guidelines to the courts say that teenagers who breach their Asbos should not normally be jailed.
At last, common sense prevails!