Safer communities
Whether it’s tackling gangs, improving partnership working or protecting witnesses, there’s something for you in our safer communities special.
Fifteen years ago Twilight Bey was flown in from America to keep LA-style gangs off London’s streets. He’s still at it today, hears Caroline Thorpe, helped by some innovative ideas on how to engage young people.
Gordon Brown’s a fan. The figures - a halving of targeted families facing anti-social behaviour sanctions - speak for themselves. And now they are backed by special tenancies. So why are landlords reluctant to use family intervention projects? Ben Cook finds out.
Community safety depends on agencies working together - and the government wants to see more of that. Christopher Smith spent the day with a housing association leading the way on such partnerships to see how it’s done.
Supporting the victims and witnesses of crime can give them the courage to come forward and create safer communities, as one Liverpool-based landlord has discovered. Steph Harrison reports