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Partners |
What can they contribute? |
What’s in it for them? |
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Police |
- Advice on designing out crime
- Problem-oriented policing
- Intelligence-led policing
- Act as witnesses or evidence gatherers in supporting cases
brought against problem tenants by local authorities &
social landlords
- Incorporate tackling youth disorder/anti-social behaviour
objectives in Local Policing Plan/Force Strategy.
- Apply for Anti-Social Behaviour Order
- Can pick up children who are truanting from schools &
return them to school or another safe place (in schemes agreed
with the local education authority) under new powers of the
CDA Act 1998.
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- Help from other agencies to reduce crime
- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
- Potential impact on overall recorded crime
- Responding to public concern
- Public confidence in the police increases
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Local Education Authority/ schools |
- Alternative education/ vocational qualifications
- Targeted work with persistent truants excluded pupils &
young people at risk of offending
- Targeted work with adults who have poor literacy, numeracy
& IT skills, are unemployed and are at risk of offending
- Education Welfare Service responsible for truants &
excludees
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- Support from others to cater for/engage disaffected young
people
- Help in meeting literacy/numeracy etc targets
- Links with citizenship programmes etc.
- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
- Reductions in school truancy & exclusions
- Reductions in school vandalism/bullying
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LA Social Services |
- Targeted work with young people at risk of offending,
including young people in the ‘looked after’ sector.
- Data on vulnerable people e.g. older people & people
with mental health problems
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- Compliance with DoH /Audit Commission advice to develop more
emphasis on prevention and family support
- Multi-agency support for vulnerable families
- Fulfilling requirements of section 17 / Best Value.
- Proposed new target to improve life chances of young people
in the ‘looked after’ sector.
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LA Youth Service and voluntary youth services |
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- Taps into young people’s interests.
- Access to additional resources
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Probation Service |
- Work to challenge offending behaviour.
- Community service contribution to social & situational
responses to tackling anti-social behaviour
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- Mobilising other agencies for effective interventions to
reduce rates of reconviction.
- Opportunities to enhance offenders’ basic
skills/employability.
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Youth Offending Teams
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- Intensive work with young offenders/young people at risk of
offending, e.g. Youth Inclusion Projects/ interventions linked
to the range of new orders introduced in the Crime &
Disorder Act.
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- Mobilising other agencies for criminality prevention/ early
intervention.
- Opportunities to enhance young peoples’ skills &
employability.
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LA Regeneration |
- Anti-social behaviour reduction measures and socially
inclusive programmes which impact positively on crime
reduction as part of wider strategies for regeneration/neighbourhood
renewal
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- Less anti-social behaviour will help to foster neighbourhood
renewal, vibrant & sustainable communities.
- Fulfilling the requirements of Section 17/ Best Value
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LA Environmental Services |
- Rapid removal of abandoned vehicles, using powers in Refuse
Disposal (Amenity) Act 1978.
- Noise / pollution control
- Maintenance of open spaces
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- Prevention of repeat incidents
- Noise / pollution control
- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
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LA Planning |
- Can require a crime impact analysis in any planning
application
- Crime prevention guidelines for developers
- When neighbourhoods are rebuilt or new build
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- Better planned neighbourhoods may experience less
crime/anti-social behaviour problems
- Fulfilling the requirements of Section 17/ Best Value
- Commitment in recent comprehensive spending review to
require local authorities to screen planning applications for
their crime implications with help from the police.
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Transport Department
Public transport operators /
Railtrack/
British Transport Police |
- Data/intelligence
- Law enforcement
- Public reassurance
- Advice on designing out crime
- Problem-oriented policing
- Local Integrated Transport Plan incorporating security &
safety
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- Reduced anti-social behaviour in/on & around stations
& bus stops
- Increased passenger security/satisfaction.
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LA Fire & Rescue
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- Initiatives to reduce & respond to arson incidents
involving vehicles, litter and vacant properties.
- Powers to require rapid removal of vehicles deemed to pose a
fire risk.
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- Reduction arson incidents
- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
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LA Housing /
Registered Social
Landlords
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- Gather & share information
- Effective neighbourhood design and management.
Good housing lettings policies aimed at meeting housing need
& achieving stable communities where anti-social behaviour
problems by youngsters are minimised.
- Ensure that all tenancies have effective clauses to deal with
anti-social behaviour & crime committed by young people,
stipulating that breach can result in the tenant losing
possession of his/her home
- Establish dedicated specialist teams to tackle anti-social
behaviour
Target tenants at risk of committing anti-social behaviour by
providing support & resettlement packages to change their
behaviour and sustain their tenancies.
- Tenant management in social housing, incorporating community
capacity building, and policies & procedures for tackling
anti-social behaviour & crime
- Role for area managers & neighbourhood wardens in
providing information / identifying and dealing with nuisance
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- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
- Increased housing lets, with more rental income, due to
reductions in anti-social behaviour problems
- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
- Local communities have increased confidence in their housing
service
- Lower repair costs, especially voids & vandalism
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LA Leisure Services |
- Role of Park Rangers services in giving advice / encouraging
reporting / gathering information.
- Targeted outreach/diversion activities
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- Fulfilling the requirements of S17/ Best Value
- Increased access to joint funding opportunities e.g.
regeneration
- Increased individual & community confidence,
contributing to improvements in health, employment &
educational attainment
- Increased use of local leisure facilities, generating
increased income.
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Health Authorities and Trusts
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- Information on nos. of vehicle-related incidents/staff
assaults reported as part of risk management system.
- Assist in development of services for youngsters with drug,
alcohol & substance misuse or mental health problems
- Facilitate parent support groups/behavioural modification
programmes
- Cleaned data on accident & emergency statistics;
drug/alcohol abuse; teenage pregnancies; mental health
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- Fulfilling requirements of NHS Executive Controls Assurance
Standard For Security Management
- Incorporation of the A & E Dept. into community
policing/crime prevention activity
- Reductions in staff assaults
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Drug Action Teams
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- Referral and treatment programmes
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- Commitment to reduce levels of repeat offending amongst drug
& substance abusing offenders by 25% by 2005.
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Local Media
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- Data to identify suspicious cases
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Neighbourhood watch/ crime prevention panels |
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- Responds to public concern
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- LA Authority Transport Department
- Public transport operators / Railtrack/
British Transport Police
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- Data/intelligence
- Law enforcement
- Public reassurance
- Advice on designing out crime
- Problem-oriented policing
- Local integrated Transport Plan incorporating security &
safety
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- Reduced youth types of anti-social behaviour in/on &
around stations & bus stops & transport interchanges
- Increased passenger security/satisfaction.
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Victim Support |
Practical & emotional support to victims of crime |
- Keep victim perspective on local partnership agenda
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Courts |
- Data on processing young offenders from arrest to sentence
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- Raised community confidence in the Criminal Justice System
- Assistance of local communities in securing successful
prosecutions
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Youth Offending Teams |
- Youth Crime Offending data by offence, ethnicity, age, gender
- Recidivism data of young offenders
- Rates of offending by children in need & those looked
after by LA
- Persistent Young Offending data
- Youth Offending cases dealt with in the Youth Court &
Crown Court
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- Prevention of youth offending and re-offending
- Swift administration of justice
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