Maggie Fennell

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• Maggie Fennell
• Derby City Council

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• RESPECT Taskforce
• www.respect.gov.uk

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Cross Whitehall Delivery

• Department for Education and Skills -
  www.dfes.gov.uk
• Department of Work and Pensions - www.dwp.gov.uk
• Department of Health - www.dh.gov.uk
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport -
  www.dcms.gov.uk
• Criminal Justice System for England Wales -
  http//www.cjsonline.gov.uk
• Department for Communities and Local Government -
  www.communities.gov.uk
• Home Office - www.homeoffice.gov.uk
• Department for Constitutional Affairs -
  www.dca.gov.uk
• Youth Justice Board - www.yjb.gov.uk

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Local Area Agreements

• Effective enforcement
• Greater accountability on community safety in
  neighbourhoods
• Respect housing management standard
• Physical regeneration linked to tackling
  behaviour

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RESPECT Action Area

• Derby is one of 40 Respect Action areas
  throughout
• England and Wales.
• All Respect Areas have earned the right to be
• exemplars of the Respect programme by their
  strong
• track record in tackling anti-social behaviour,
  and a
• willingness and capacity to do more.

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Local Area Agreements

• Provision of constructive activities for young
  people
• Schools-tackling persistent absence and poor
  behaviour
• Effective support for families
• Effective response to challenging families

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RESPECT Action Plan

• Supporting families
• A new approach to the most challenging families
• Improving behaviour and attendance in schools
• Activities for children and young people
• Strengthening communities
• Effective enforcement and community justice

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RESPECT Standard for Housing Management

• Launched in August 2006 as a non mandatory guide
• for Registered Social Landlords.
• As at 1 April 2007 246 organisations have
  signed
• up.
• Derby Homes being amongst the first and now
• Leading the way in innovation and practice.

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RESPECT Standard for Housing Management

• Accountability, leadership, and commitment
• Empowering and reassuring residents
• Prevention and early intervention
• Tailored services for residents and provision of
  support for victims and witnesses
• Protecting communities through swift enforcement
• Support to tackle the causes of anti-social
  behaviour

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Derby Intensive Family Intervention Project
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Context

• Drive on Anti Social Behaviour
• Small number of families large amounts of money
• Pioneering project
• Respect Action Plan

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Objectives

• Stop ASB
• Prevent Homelessness
• Achieve Every Child Matters Outcomes

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Every Child Matters cross-Government working
with local partners to achieve better outcomes
for children and young people.

• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

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What Works?

• Targeting the Worst Families First
• Cross Tenure
• Highly Intensive Support
• Structured Supervision
• Clear Sanctions
• Tackling Root Causes
• Whole family approach
• Not one size fits all

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Why are the current interventions ineffective?

• Services not coordinated, disjointed, different
  priorities
• No common endeavour
• Unwilling to use Enforcement

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Senior Case Worker

• Consistent
• Determined
• Relentless

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Models of Intervention

• Outreach Support
• Dispersed Accommodation
• Core Block

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Organisation and Management Structure
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High Risk
Core Block
Dispersed Accommodation
Outreach Services
Low Risk
Risk Matrix Dynamic Assessment
Catalogue of Interventions Step up, step down
Prevention - Enforcement -
Early Intervention
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• Maggie Fennell
• Derby City Council