The ASB, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (“the ASB Act”) introduced the Community Protection Notice (“CPN”) — a power automatically conferred to the police and local authorities. It also stated that the power could be delegated to other bodies, including social housing providers. It would be fair to say that, to date, uptake of this […]
Over the past 12 months, myself and Darren Burton from Forbes Solicitors, have been working with Sheffield Hallam University and a range of representatives from different Housing Providers…
If you work in ASB, whether in a policing, community safety or housing role, you are likely to be called upon to chair a partnership meeting from time to time. This could be a community trigger panel review meeting, a partnership tasking meeting that takes place periodically or an ad-hoc case conference that has been
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Many of you will be aware that the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities recently published the Levelling Up White Paper. The 300+ page document includes many high-level commitments and reiteration of previous announcements and work. I have produced a short summary of the content that directly relates to ASB and community safety, which
There has been much recent conversation about the value of being able to include positive requirements within injunctions and criminal behaviour orders (CBOs). For many, they appear a classic example of something that sounds great in theory but problematic when trying to transfer to practice. The varying concerns of practitioners can largely be grouped into
Back in September, wea Anti-social behaviour (ASB) isn’t a problem exclusive to social housing, yet it can feel more challenging for agencies to deal with when occurring in the private sector, where they don’t have the deterrence that having a tenancy agreement can bring. Changes to the possession process within the private rented sector means
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I was recently asked to speak at the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) conference in Manchester. The topic of the panel session that I was to be part of centred around finding silver linings with regards to the way we have had to adapt our ASB case management processes during lockdown. My initial response was
When deciding what to write in my blog posts, I try to think of subjects that are topical and likely to provide the most benefit or food for thought. Undoubtedly, over the last 12 months or so, a key area that I get asked for advice in relates to people smoking cannabis within their homes
On Tuesday 27th July 2021, the Government published the Beating Crime Plan, described as a document setting out the strategic approach to cutting crime: cutting homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime; exposing and ending hidden harms; and building capability and capacity to deal with fraud and online crime. What is pleasing is that the document references anti-social
Residential CCTV has long been an area of challenge for housing, ASB and police officers, with more and more residents opting to install systems at their homes for security or evidential reasons. This has led to an increase in complaints to organisations, about the positioning of these devices and the impact on privacy. As technology
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