Monday 12 May 2008
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Antisocial Behaviour (ASB) ›
Actions we can take
Actions we can take
Action we can take against ASB include:
- Contact with the alleged offender. This can include face-to-face interviews, telephone calls and letters.
- Professional mediation. This enables residents to talk to an independent and impartial mediator in a safe environment, with or without the other person present, to reach a workable solution to a dispute.
- Injunctions (including emergency injunctions to protect witnesses).Injunctions are court orders that tell people to stop behaving in a certain way, with penalties if they ignore them.
- Antisocial Behaviour Order (ASBO). ASBOs are civil court orders that can be used on anyone over 10 – they last for at least two years and breaking the terms of an ASBO is a criminal offence. We usually apply for ASBOs in conjunction with the police and local authority.
- Acceptable Behaviour Contract (ABC). These are written assurances signed by a young person and/or their parents, or an adult causing nuisance, that they will change their behaviour and stop the nuisance. Breaching an ABC is not a criminal offence, but could lead to more serious action, such as an ASBO, being taken.
- Possession action that could lead to eviction. A court order that can be suspended (giving a resident another chance to remain in their home as long as the antisocial behaviour stops) or outright (ordering a resident to leave their home immediately).
- Demoted tenancy. A court order reduces a resident’s security and rights as a tenant because of their antisocial behaviour. Their tenancy can be reinstated if their behaviour improves, but if it doesn’t they could be evicted.
- Closure Order. An order that the police apply for to close down a property where class A drugs are being sold, used or produced.
