Under the law changes, courts must sentence child sex offenders who have served a prison term and then go on to commit a further serious child sex offence to indefinite detention.

These dangerous offenders will never be released unless they can prove that they are no longer a threat to the community by demonstrating they are willing and able to control their sexual instincts.

Even if these offenders are ever released on licence, they will face being electronically monitored for the rest of their lives.

These laws build on other tough new changes to child sex offender laws introduced and passed by the Government including:

• Increasing penalties for a range of child sex abuse offences, such as increasing the maximum penalty for gross indecency with or in the presence of a child from five to 15 years.
• Legislating to ban child sex offenders from working alongside underage employees, in places such as hospitality or retail.
• Strengthening Carly’s Law, so that tough penalties apply to offenders who communicate online with police officers posing as fictitious children.