cadence comments about anti-social behaviour

14 Jan 2010

Pioneer community pathfinders (not Thick of it)

The Home Office announced this week 'Pioneer communities sought for new neighbourhood agreements'. They want 'communities to step forward to lead the fight against crime and anti-social behaviour. Ministers are looking for ten trailblazing areas to pioneer Neighbourhood Agreements on community safety and justice between police, councils and residents. The Pathfinders will require police, councils and other agencies to agree service standards with local residents - and enable the residents to hold them to account'. So these places will be 'pioneers', trailblazers' and 'pathfinders' ... there is no mention of the 4th sector, but do the press offices watch the Thick of it, where they have parodied such initiatives and language ... more

20 Apr 2009

War on anti-social behaviour - Conservative policies

In a recent speech by Chris Grayling, Conservative Shadow Home Secretary, he said that 'Changing what we have called the broken society will be a long and difficult process. But one step we can take quickly is to go to war on antisocial behaviour' ... more

5 Nov 2008

Designing out crime initiative

The Home Office backing an intiative to develop new and innovative design solutions to 'help prevent robbery, to crime-proof hot new gadgets and to embed public safety in the design of new public spaces and housing'. It will focus on crime problems that particularly affect young people. This is interesting to us in the context research proposal looking at the relationship between mode of transport and perceptions of young people's behaviour ... more

29 Feb 2008

Shared space and consideration

The idea of shared space on our streets is getting more and more coverage. When street furniture is reduced behaviour is much more reliant on eye contact, nods and little waves between vehicle drivers and pedestrians. Many argue that this reduces accidents, but does it make us safer in other ways too ... more

27 Feb 2008

The bishop, mosquito and play

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said that the high-pitched electronic device, 'Mosquito', designed to disperse groups of youngsters is "a sad example of an indiscriminate and knee-jerk response to a perceived problem, which only deals at best with symptoms, not causes"... more