The Current & Future Climate for Tackling ASB
Confirmed Speakers Include:
- Chief Superintendent Christopher Bourlet, Crime & Customer Strategy Unit, Metropolitan Police Service
- Gordon Falconer, Senior Manager, Surrey Community Safety Unit
- Peter Jackson, Social Landlords Crime & Nuisance Group
- Andrew Oates, Assistant Director (Customer Services), Liverpool Mutual Homes
- Ian Whiteway, Anti-Social Behaviour Manager, Richmond Housing Partnership
- Ian Walker MBE, Community Safety Professionals
- Jeanette York, Community Safety Consultant and HMIC Associate
- Roger King, Director, Safer & Stronger Solutions (chair)
The Context
The current climate for any organisation working to tackle ASB will almost certainly be dominated by declining resources. This is likely to remain the case in the future. With this in mind, it is essential for community safety and housing practitioners to work together more effectively than has been the case in the past. How can this be achieved while dealing with other key changes affecting the sector?
Key Issues to be Addressed Include:
- How can the key stakeholders work together more effectively?
- How can resources/functions be more efficiently pooled/divided?
- Stopping the rot – what has changed since HMIC’s ASB review and what more should police forces be doing?
- How will the introduction of PCCs affect the ASB landscape?
- What services can the PCC commission and who will they want to get them from?
- Will the measures in the new housing strategy have the desired impact?
- Which tools and powers will survive the review and which will be the most useful for practitioners?
The Event
Participants in the morning policy session will be briefed about and discuss current developments affecting the ASB sector. The afternoon policy into practice session will examine good practice in dealing with ASB at the local level. The theme of improving strategic working between community safety and housing practitioners will be pursued throughout the day.
Who Should Attend?
All those with a working interest in this area, including (but not limited to): the police; social landlords; local authority community safety teams, YOTs, members of community safety partnerships; housing associations; elected members and the voluntary sector.
- Tuesday, 28th February 2012
- 11.00am – 3.30pm (including networking lunch)
- ETC Venues, One Drummond Gate, Victoria, SW1V 2QQ
- £225 per place or £175 for two or more places
Background Quote
Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary, February 2011“I want to see a transformation in the way anti-social behaviour is dealt with. I want to free professionals to do what they know will work in their area, and ensure they are accountable to the communities they serve rather than bureaucrats in Whitehall.”
Laying The Foundations: A Housing Strategy For England, November 2011“Too many people continue to suffer from the effects of anti-social behaviour in their neighbourhood. We are committed to tackling anti-social behaviour in all its forms and social landlords, the police and local authorities all have a vital role to play in protecting victims and communities.”
