Respect Standard
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The Respect Standard for Housing Management, launched in August 2006, outlines the core components essential to delivering an effective response to anti-social behaviour and building stronger communities, such as accountability, leadership, giving greater resident empowerment, and supporting community efforts at tackling anti-social behaviour.
Publication of the Standard follows extensive public consultation including a written consultation paper and a programme of regional consultation events.
Sheffield Homes signed up to the Respect Standard in September 2006. By signing up to the Respect Standard Sheffield Homes is showing its commitment to doing all that we can to provide the best possible service to tackle anti-social behaviour and create a culture of respect. We will do this through our housing management role together with our broader multi agency role in partnership with other agencies including the police.
The Standard is built around six core commitments:
Accountability, leadership, and commitment
Landlords need to make a visible commitment to the community so that everyone is clear they take issues of anti-social behaviour and respect seriously and will deliver what they say they will.
Empowering and reassuring residents
Landlords and the community need to work as one through involving residents and giving them input into decision-making. Engagement and effective communications act to reassure and empower communities.
Prevention and early intervention
Landlords can play a key role in preventing anti-social behaviour from occurring. Where it does occur, if problems are addressed quickly this often gets the best results.
Tailored services for residents and provision of support for victims and witnesses
Success rests on people being prepared to report and then give support to agencies in taking action. Every case and every person deserves a robust, tailored and sensitive response.
Protecting communities through swift enforcement
Government has provided landlords with the tools they need to tackle a whole range of anti-social behaviour. Landlords need to understand how tools work and be prepared to use them quickly to protect communities
Support to tackle the causes of anti-social behaviour
Provision of support can put an end to unacceptable behaviour by tackling underlying causes. This leads to sustainable outcomes and gets people’s lives back on track.
The Government will be encouraging residents to get engaged and hold their landlord to account. The Audit Commission, who carry out inspections of landlords, are also looking to strengthen their guidelines to landlords on what they expect a good landlord to be achieving in tackling anti-social behaviour. This will reflect the content of the Standard.
For further details on the Respect Standard: http://www.respect.gov.uk/ (new window)
You can also see further details of Sheffield Homes anti social behaviour policy and procedure. Just click the link.