The latest Home Office statistics reveal that between April 1999 and December 2005, 57 per cent of under - 18s and 41 per
cent of adults breached their Asbos, compared to 47 per cent and 38 per cent respectively in the period to December 2003.
Today's figures confirm a new report from the National Audit Office (NAO), which finds that in a sample
of 115 young people and
adults given Asbos, more than half (55 per
cent)
breached the conditions
of their order.