We want to work with our tenants and other stakeholders to develop pleasant, safe communities where anti social behaviour is recognised as being unacceptable and where those responsible for it can be readily identified and dealt with.

To achieve this, we have or will:

• Use all available resources, including publishing procedures and service standards to promote responsible behaviour and develop a culture within communities where anti social behaviour is clearly defined and recognised as unacceptable;
  
  
• Continue using Mediation and use Acceptable Behaviour Contracts to encourage parental responsibility and tackle anti social behaviour in young people;
  
  
• Implement a Victims Come First approach and provide support to vulnerable persons and those who have suffered domestic violence or hate crime;
  
  
• Promote and fund residents' associations and other tenant or leaseholder groups to encourage social inclusion and local resolution of problems including the provision of locally determined improvement budgets;
  
  
• Identify candidates for the Housing Service Local Community Award Scheme which recognises the important role witnesses of anti social behaviour can have in improving their neighbourhood and community;
  
  
• Support and publicise community based schemes such as the Tendring's Its Your Voice and anti social behaviour reporting line;
  
  
• Investigate and introduce more effective measures to encourage tenants to keep their gardens tidy and well maintained;
  
  
• Review equality and diversity issues in the context of tackling crime and disorder;
  
  
• Repeat the anti social behaviour and fear of crime survey of all Council tenants. Find out more about the results of this survey that we carried out in 2007/08.

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