Respect Action Area
Information about Respect Action Areas
Contact Details:
Address: Community Safety,
Southampton City Council,
Ground Floor, Southbrook Rise,
4-8 Millbrook Road East,
Southampton
Postcode: SO15 1YG
Telephone: 023 8083 2013
Email: community.safety@southampton.gov.uk
Fax: 023 8083 3350
Details of service:
What is Respect?
‘Respect’ is a Government plan to deal bad behaviour across the country. It is about the government, local agencies and the community working together to build a society where anti-social behaviour is rare and dealt effectively. In turn this will make sure communities to live in peace together.
• It is about supporting and, where needed, enforcing a modern culture of respect, which the majority of people want.
• It is about showing understanding, acceptance and common decency towards the people around us. These are our family, friends and peers, people who are older or younger than us, people from different walks of life or who follow different cultures or religions.
• It is about being aware of our behaviour towards others and the affect it may have on them.
What is a Respect area?
We were invited to become one of 40 Respect Action Areas at the end of last year. This was in recognition of the innovative and successful projects the council, working with partner agencies, has set up over the last three years. But, also because of our willingness and ability to do more.
Key themes of the Respect agenda include:
• A new approach to the most challenging families
• Activities for children and young people
• Improving behaviour and attendance in schools
• Strengthening communities
• Effective enforcement and community justice
• Supporting families
All 40 Respect Areas have signed up to:
• Family intervention projects to deal with ‘neighbours from hell’;
• More parenting classes for parents struggling with troublesome children;
• ‘Face the People’ sessions where the police, local authorities and others can be accountable to their local public;
• Keep up the relentless action to tackle anti-social behaviour by using the full range of tools and powers available;
• Using the Respect Housing Standard to prevent and deal with any problems in social housing.
Being an Action Area give us extra support and advice from the Government’s Respect Task Force. We will receive extra funding to specifically target support for families and parenting projects.
We were one of the first local councils to sign up to the Respect agenda. We published our local Respect Action Plan in April 2006, giving details of our success in tackling anti-social behaviour. The plan also explained the city's plans and ambitions for the future.
Last updated: 7 October 2008
