Ministers plan to allow naming and shaming of offenders completing community sentences

Exclusive: critics say the move, part of the sentencing bill for England and Wales, would bring shame upon families of offenders

Ministers are pushing through powers to photograph, name and shame offenders who have been ordered to complete unpaid community work in England and Wales.

The sentencing bill, now moving through parliament, will for the first time give probation officers a legal power" to take and publish the names and pictures of individuals ordered by courts to tidy grass verges, litter-pick or scrub graffiti.