An Acceptable Behaviour Contract is given when a local authority and youth offending team (YOT) identify a young person who is behaving anti-socially at a low level. With the young person and their parents/carers, they agree a contract under which the young person agrees to stop the patterns of behaviour that are causing nuisance to the local community and undertake activities to address their offending behaviour.
If they breach the terms of the contract, the local authority can use this to get an Anti-Social Behaviour Order applied to the young person.