Anti Social Behaviour: How to Initiate Legal Action

Description

Anti-Social Behaviour: Initiating Legal Action under The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014.

Dealing with anti-social behaviour can be challenging, but taking legal action is an effective way to address the issue.

Anti-Social Behaviour continues to be a challenging issue for local authorities. In the current environment with increasing demands on housing lists, local authority staff are under more pressure to address cases of anti-social behaviour.

Local Authority Staff go to great lengths to address cases of anti-social behaviour through non-legal solutions in line with the good practice guidelines set out in “Preventing and Combating Anti-Social Behaviour”. However, in a number of cases, such measures fail and housing officers have no option but to take steps to exclude individuals from rented accommodation or to terminate the tenancy. At times this is the only viable option left to combat anti-social behaviour. The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 has incorporated fair procedure principles putting them on a statutory footing. This will mean that all steps and procedures under the Act must be followed.

What you will learn

Many statutory agencies grossly underestimate the importance and significance of providing legal training to officers charged with enforcing legislation. Not only must officers know the law, they need to gain key skills and competencies in its application.

This includes understanding the application of the relevant powers, knowing how to investigate different offences, interviewing witnesses, issuing warnings and if appropriate proceeding to prosecution, applying the rules of evidence and understanding how the criminal justice system works.

This legal training course will give delegates the practical knowledge and the confidence to greatly improve their ability to meet their civil enforcement and investigation obligations and ensure compliance with relevant legislation.

This course can also be run specifically for your organisation, which is a good option for training a large number of employees cost-effectively.

La Touche Training regularly delivers this legal training in-house for local authorities throughout the country. Training can be run at a time, date and venue suitable to you.