Scottish Government

Good Practice Model

Authority

Key Player

Multi-disciplinary Supporting People Strategy Group. Remit is much wider than assisting people to avoid creating anti-social behaviour, but work does contribute to reducing instances by vulnerable and challenging groups.

Glasgow (now Glasgow Housing Association)

Sandra Blair
Assessment and
Care Officer
0141 287 5896

Social Worker employed in Housing Department to support vulnerable tenants including those perpetrating neighbour nuisance.

Orkney

John Richards
Assistant Director of Housing
01856 851 435
johnr@orkney.gov.uk

Dundee Families Project aims to support families threatened with eviction (or following eviction) due to anti-social behaviour. Key aim is to assist families to develop and maintain skills to enable them to sustain a tenancy in mainstream housing. Three types of service: outreach preventive work, residential core accommodation with on-site staff and residential dispersed accommodation. Council-funded, managed by NCH.

Dundee

David Simpson
City Housing Manager
01382 434 342
david.simpson@dundeecity.gov.uk

Shelter Families and Council joint initiative. Successfully re-integrates dysfunctional families back into mainstream housing by a combination of practical help and work to prevent recurrence of problem behaviour.

South Lanarkshire

Cameron Mitchell
Tenant Participation Officer (Strategy)
01698 454 739
cameron.mitchell@southlanarkshire.gov.uk

Neighbourhood Support Team. An in-house service for vulnerable anti-social families to assist them to change their behaviour and sustain accommodation without causing nuisance to neighbours.

Edinburgh

Susan Bruce
Area Manager
0131 527 3801
susan.bruce@edinburgh.gov.uk
Stuart Orr
Project Manager
07771 910 194
stuart.orr@edinburgh.gov.uk

Contract introduced to assist in managing the tenancies of anti-social tenants to help them maintain their tenancies. Commits the tenant to accepting assistance from, e.g. Housing and Social Work staff and appropriate specialist agencies.

Midlothian

Anita Anderson
Principal Officer
0131 271 3611
Anita.Anderson@midlothian.gov.uk

Communication support for people with a learning difficulty or mental health problem who are being interviewed as a result of incidents involving anti-social behaviour. Communication Support Worker facilitates communication where it is felt the person has difficulty in either understanding the purpose and implications of the interview or expressing their point of view.

Fife

Fiona Alder
Housing Investigations Officer
01592 414 233
fiona.alder@fife.gov.uk