The number of court-ordered sanctions including evictions,
Anti-Social Behaviour Orders and prosecutions are not measures of how well a
problem is being tackled.
What are we tackling?
- Nuisance neighbours
- ‘Street’ nuisance including:
- youth nuisance
- criminal damage
- environmental problems
- disorder caused by alcohol sales and misuse
- Arson
- Nuisance on public transport
- The problems associated with street prostitution
How we tackle it.
Effective use of all relevant powers within the city centre
to curb the effects of alcohol-related nuisance.
Establish Sheffield Safer Neighbourhood Areas.
Education and re-assurance
- Use of parenting courses to support better parenting
- Work with licensed premises to alert managers and staff
to their responsibilities
- Promotional campaigns and group-work with young people
educating them to the dangers of fire-setting and making hoax calls
Prevention/Diversion
- Implementation of the city’s Youth Activities Strategy
- Use of the ‘Positive Activities for young People’
programme during times of high risk of youth nuisance e.g. summer holidays
- Fast removal of abandoned cars, litter an graffiti
- Erect physical barriers to deter poor behaviour in
communities and protect green spaces
- Deliver the programmes to support street prostitutes
into leaving this work
- Implement the ‘prevent and deter’ strand of the
Prolific and Other Priority Offenders Strategy aimed at those young people ‘at
risk’ of offending
Enforcement
- Use of Anti-Social Behaviour Act Section 30 measures (the
Dispersal Orders)
- Appropriate use of Acceptable Behaviour Contracts
(ABCs), Anti-Social Behaviour Orders, injunctions and possession orders
- Appropriate use of the Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs)
- Effective use of powers available under the new
Licensing Act
Re-engagement
Supporting tenants at
risk of eviction or who have been evicted to change their behaviour, offering
probationary tenancies after proven changes