15th Annual Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour Conference The new agenda and powers to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour
Tuesday 27th September 2011, York Racecourse #
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The new landscape for tackling anti-social behaviour (ASB) is becoming clearer and will mean a much changed operating environment for housing organisations, local authorities, Community Safety Partnerships, as well as the police and the criminal justice system. The new approach calls for citizens to take a larger role in tackling ASB, better partnership working at a neighbourhood level and more support for victims. ASB ‘tools and powers’ reform proposals consulted on earlier in the year are expected to necessitate changes on a significant scale. In addition, the Department for Communities and Local Government will be consulting on proposals for mandatory powers for possession in eviction cases. The Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill promises a new approach to fighting crime, including proposals for directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners. This conference will discuss implications of these proposals, as well as highlighting innovative and effective practice. By attending this conference you will: Understand the implications of the Governments’ agenda for ASB and sentencing, including proposals for new ASB tools and powers. Find out about key legal developments and the implications of human rights challenges on UK law. Help inform your response to the Department for Communities and Local Government consultation on mandatory powers for possession. Hear from the Home Office ASB pilots on new approaches to handling complaints of ASB. Hear examples of improved outcomes from effective partnership working between housing and the police – what works. Hear about how to involve tenants in service improvement. Gain an understanding of how to develop effective approaches to tackling domestic abuse. Find out about effective multi-agency approaches in repeat victim cases. Learn about approaches that deliver service efficiencies. Receive an update on the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill.
Who should attend? Anyone working to reduce crime and ASB in the housing environment, or in Community Safety Partnerships, will benefit from attending this event. This event should be attended by Directors and Managers in housing and community safety, tenancy enforcement as well as neighbourhood wardens, solicitors and police liaison officers. Please forward this flyer to your partners in other agencies with responsibility for tackling crime and ASB including education, health, children’s services, the third sector, social services and criminal justice. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Delegates will be able to record 4 Continuing Professional Development hours for attending this conference.
Programme 10.15
Chairs’ welcome and introduction Gilly Marshall, Chair, Northern Housing Consortium North East ASB Study Group and Tenancy Enforcement Manager, Erimus Housing
10.25
Local government: enablers in local solutions to crime and ASB Board Member, Safer and Stronger Communities Board, Local Government Group As government policy is devolving responsibility to local communities and encouraging community activism to tackle crime and ASB issues, at the same time as reducing the resources available to statutory organisations, the Local Government Group (LGG) will set out its perspective on: The Governments new agenda for ASB, including proposals for new ASB tools and powers, and what impact this approach may have on how local government will need to work with partner agencies and local communities. The implications on the proposed reforms to policing as part of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill. Supporting local action through Community Safety Partnerships. Supporting the establishment of police and crime panels.
11.00 The Government agenda for anti-social behaviour and sentencing: the implications for children and young people David Utting, Commission Secretary, Independent Commission on Youth Crime and AntiSocial Behaviour The Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour was established in 2008 to identify principles and approaches for effective, humane and coherent responses to children and young people’s anti-social and criminal behaviour in England and Wales, and to influence the development of policy. In the context of the core principles of the Commission and with reference to the role of housing organisations, this session will: Focus on the need for investment in prevention and early intervention. Cover restorative approaches to offending and ASB. Look at ending the wasteful and ineffective use of custody. 11.40
Professional Practice Sessions 1. Better protection through better co- ordination Ian Whiteway, Anti-Social Behaviour Manager, Richmond Housing Partnership Rabia Arbi, Anti-Social Behaviour Officer, Richmond Housing Partnership Richmond Housing Partnership is delivering one of the Home Office pilots working closely with the Metropolitan Police, trailing new approaches to identify and protect vulnerable victims. This pilot will help shape how the new tools and powers for ASB will be implemented.
This session will cover: Identifying risk. Impact on victims. Good practice examples of partnership working. Risk Assessment Matrix (RAM). What do the changes mean for you? 2. Tackling domestic violence – examples of effective partnership working Libby Griffiths, Tenancy Relations and Enforcement Manager, Housing Hartlepool In this session Libby will use case study examples of tackling domestic violence through working effectively with partner agencies and outline: Starting to tackle domestic violence and securing our first ASB Injunction in 2006. What did we learn from this experience? How partnership working started and how it has developed - becoming involved with the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference in 2006. Case studies looking at evidence used, successes, outcomes, where we have gone wrong and things we do differently as a result. 3. Helping community safety partnerships support and protect vulnerable people – the North Lincolnshire Victim & Vulnerable Persons Index project Steve Foston, Senior Safer Neighbourhoods Officer, North Lincolnshire Safer Neighbourhoods Paul Cullan, Xantura The need to protect vulnerable people in our society has risen to the top of the crime and ASB agenda as there have been a number of high profile examples of catastrophic system failures. The Safer Neighbourhoods Partnership, within North Lincolnshire, are working to develop a Victims and Vulnerable Peoples Index (VVPI) to support and protect vulnerable people by predicting those at the highest risk of poor outcomes and getting this risk information to the front line in a timely fashion so that the right interventions can be put in place. The approach complements Home Office ASB Casework and repeat victimisation initiatives. This session will present on the development of the VVPI system and include: A demonstration of the North Lincolnshire VVPI system solution developed with Xantura. Enabling data sharing across partnerships. Explain how the system will predictively model and identify those persons most at risk of the effects of ASB, produce personalised safety recommendations designed to reduce their overall level of vulnerability and provide both professional and voluntary support (i.e. incorporating the Big Society elements in action) in the process. 12.45
Lunch
13.45
Professional Practice Sessions
4. Better responses to repeat victim cases Rob Brown, Safer Middlesbrough Partnership Heather Tisbury, Housing Respect Officer, Erimus Housing The Safer Middlesbrough Partnership (SMP) reviewed its processes of identifying repeat victims of ASB following high profile cases including Fiona Pilkington and David Askew whereby the failure to protect extremely vulnerable people led to tragic consequences. In this session Rob and Heather will explain how the review devised processes to reduce the levels of risk and to reduce the harm suffered by repeat victims of ASB. In this session you will learn how to: Redefine ASB locally, how to build a system based on ‘harm’ not ‘volume’. Create multi – agency case management processes. Measure success and evaluate impact of interventions from the victim’s perspective. Empower local community safety agencies to identify, assess and problem-solve repeat victims of ASB by the establishment of the Risk Assessment Matrix (RAM) and a Repeat Victim Case Group. Hear about a case study, the benefits of the approach and the outcome. 5. Improving efficiency and effectiveness – by putting customer needs at the heart of the service Sharon Dalton, Enforcement Manager, Coast & Country Christine Harland, Tenant Panel representative, Coast & Country Coast & Country undertook a customer centred review of how it dealt with ASB which has resulted in cases being resolved more quickly; a decrease in legal action; an increase in cases being resolved through mediation; an increase in customer satisfaction and a reduction in formal complaints. This session will explain how the improvements were made through: A customer journey mapping exercise, capturing the experiences of residents who had reported ASB through an interview process led by a Tenant Panel representative who had also been a service user. Identifying where improvements were needed in the process for reporting ASB, including communication, options for reporting further incidents and how cases were closed. Ongoing evaluation and review. 6. Partnership working in ASB Sue Grimmett, Anti-Social Behaviour Officer, Villages Housing Dave Brennan, Head of the Stronger Communities Initiatives Team, Merseyside Police The Stronger Communities Initiatives Team in Stockbridge Village, Knowsley have produced significant reductions in crime and ASB, this session will share their experience and focus on: Research – know your community, what are you working with? Looking at data from the Vulnerable Localities Index and the Serious and Organised Crime Agency. Working with partners – an evidence base and a business case for partnership working.
Agreeing organisational and partnership objectives. Importance of taking stock of progress and achievements – meeting regularly, update each other on activity, goals, what’s going well and what can go better. Don’t forget your community - have regular community meetings, find out what action they need and provide feedback. 14.50
A legal update – key legal developments and implications for practitioners Gill Marshall, Section Head, Regulatory and Enforcement, Leeds City Council This session will give you an update on key legal developments. Gill will consider where we are today and where we may be in future including: Future direction of policy. Recent government consultation on ASB. Government proposals for mandatory powers of possession. Potential implications of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill.
15.40
Chairs’ closing remarks
15.50
Close of conference
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15th Annual Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour Conference The new agenda and powers to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour Tuesday 27th September 2011, York Racecourse Delegate fees
Early booking discount: book before 2nd September 2011
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£179
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£249
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