Decision details

‘Respect’ was launched as a cross-Government drive to tackle bad behaviour and its causes, and promote good behaviour, in September 2005.  The programme encompasses youth issues, housing management, licensing and other aspects of anti-social behaviour

This report will present a Respect Action Plan for the borough and incorporate the Council’s Best Value Review of Anti-Social Behaviour, bringing together Barking and Dagenham’s actions on anti-social behaviour into a coordinated strategic plan.  The action plan will also include the on-going development of improved anti-social behaviour procedures for the Community Safety team

Received a report detailing the Best Value review of anti-social behaviour in Barking and Dagenham which had been conducted in order to consider and address the way the Council and its partners dealt corporately with anti social behaviour in the Borough. The report summarised the activities that had taken place as part of this review process, and included an Improvement Plan which would lay the foundations for how the Council and its partners tackle anti social behaviour within the Borough for the future.

Agreed, in order to meet the Council’s statutory obligation under the 1998 Crime & Disorder Act, and subsequent legislation, to reduce crime and disorder within the Borough, to recommend the Assembly to:

1.  Note the Best Value Review;

2.  Agree the four key recommendations of the review:

·  To ensure a co-ordinated response to anti-social behaviour in the borough a Council and partner-wide Anti-Social Behaviour Intervention Group should be established to consider and deliver on the strategic vision of the borough in terms of its ASB work.

·  The Borough needs to develop an integrated approach to ASB with co-located teams and a structure which allows for a holistic approach across the Partnership to addressing the needs of the community, those responsible for asb and the Partnership as a whole.

·  Improve communication of the Council’s and its partners processes for preventing and dealing with Anti-Social Behaviour to all members of the local community and our partners. Implement a comprehensive Media and Communications Strategy for the partnership.

·  In terms of operational delivery a Standing Case Conference should be established to address behaviours of key individuals and families and to deliver early intervention to target the prevention agenda

3.  Agree for officers to work on the detailed Improvement Plan detailed within the report.