Respect

1
Respect

• Sam Chapman
• Vicky Clark
• Billy Maxwell

2
Respect Area Status

• BwD awarded Respect Area status in December 2007
• All 40 Respect Areas have signed up to
• Family intervention projects drawn on the work of
  the Dundee Families Project established by NCH in
  1995.
• More parenting classes for parents struggling
  with troublesome children
• Face the People sessions where the police, local
  authorities and others can be accountable to
  their local public
• Keep up the relentless action to tackle
  anti-social behaviour by using the full range of
  tools and powers available
• Using the Respect Housing Standard to prevent and
  deal with any problems in social housing.

3
Family Intervention Project

• Extension of NCH Families Project
• Increase in capacity of outreach service from 12
  to 16 families
• Development of 4 dispersed tenancies
• Multi-agency Case Intervention Panel considers
  referrals
• Referrals are mainly TVH tenants,
• but this need not be the case.

4
Parenting

• Funding attracted for
• Training provision for 20 staff to deliver
  evidenced based parenting programmes
• Employment of two Senior Parenting Practitioners
  based within the Community Safety Team
• Delivery of parenting support across all four
  tiers (universal targeted support)
• RSLs can now apply for Parenting Orders, where
  ASB is affecting their management function

5
Face the People

• Promoting dialogue between local people and
  services by ensuring regular and systematic 'face
  the people' briefings
• Sessions will be open to the public and community
  groups and involve a senior representative from
  the police and local authority
• Number of forums already in existence within the
  Borough 100 Voices, Jack Straw meetings, Exec
  Board on the road, supported by PACT, PAC
  meetings, Community Safety Network, Service User
  Network

6
Tools and Powers

• Case Intervention Panel which meets on monthly
  basis to discuss cases of ASB
• Attended by senior practitioners from a range of
  agencies
• Provides a multi-agency response in individual
  cases of serious and persistent anti-social
  behaviour.
• Ensures that balanced action plans are developed
  around prevention, enforcement, rehabilitation
  and resettlement
• Respect Unit are clearly watching the
  numbers of ABCs, ASBOs, etc. Concerns have been
  raised when numbers dipped! New powers such as
  Closure Orders on the way.
• Older powers such as Dispersal Orders beginning
• to be used in line with the merits of each case

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Respect Housing Standard

• The Standard is built around six core commitments
• Borough hosted a Respect Action Day in May themed
  on the Standard
• Looking at preferred partnership agreement to
  assist in delivery
• This focuses on providers,
• but the Partnership is here to help.

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Respect in Neighbourhoods

• Individual cases of ASB should be reported to the
  police while they are happening.
• Then reported to Shared Neighbourhood Teams if
  they are long-term problems.
• The teams can then decide whether they need
  Borough-wide multi-agency help in serious and
  persistent cases.
• The teams can use these real-life cases to inform
  Area action plans

9
Measuring Respect

• There are 7 indicators of what the public feel is
  happening in their neighbourhood from abandoned
  vehicles, through noisy neighbours, and drug
  dealing.
• BWD have done quite well exceeding targeted
  improvements on them all.
• Weve done better than expected by MORI.
• But not because people feel informed about what
  were doing.
• People are also asked about parenting in the area
  and whether people treat each other with respect.

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Neighbourhood Engagement

• Co-ordination areas
• Area Agency Partnerships (AAPs)
• Area plans
• Shared Neighbourhood Teams
• Multi agency problem solving (MAPS)
• The neighbourhood engagement service shares the
  community call for action in the white paper
  stronger and more prosperous communities.