Series of unacceptable acts that could be termed to be antisocial include: vandalism, neighbours disputes, noisy neighbours and serious issues like drug dealing and harassments.
The interpretation of ASB in the 2003 Act adheres closely to the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which concentrates on the impact of behaviours rather than specific types of behaviour. Recognising the difficulties in identifying what constitutes ASB; social landlords understand the importance of setting out in-house policies and procedures of what they would consider to be ASB. In 2010, the Labour Government issued a document titled ‘tackling anti-social behaviour: tools and powers – a tool-kit for social landlords’. An outline of helpful remedies available to social landlords is contained in this document. It provides an insight on how to tackle and solve ASB in neighbourhoods and places to go for help.
On the 13th of March 2014, the new ASB, Crime and Policing Act 2014 were given Royal Assent. This focuses the changes in the tools and powers on ground to agencies, organisations, and practitioners who tackle ASB.
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Tenants/customers who engage in ASB can be handled by local housing authorities, private registered providers of social housing who possess the powers to do so.
In England and Wales, it was projected that around 300,000 cases of ASB was dealt with in 2011/12 by social landlords. This was in a Benchmarking work by HouseMark (July 2012 cited in Wendy Wilson, 2013).
To ensure best practice in tenancy management, social landlords must consider various ways to resolve neighbourhood anti-social behaviour and differences before taking any action to end a tenancy. Anti-social behaviour policies have been established by most social landlords on their own and this information should be made available to tenants as directed in Section 12 of the ASB Act 2003.
On the other hand, ‘tackling anti-social behaviour: tools and powers – a tool-kit for social landlords’ published in March 2010. The guidance generally outlines the remedies available to social