Neighbourhood crime

Neighbourhood crime and anti-social behaviour – making places safer through improved local working

This report considers how local agencies responsible for community safety can work better together and with local people to make neighbourhoods safer and improve the perception of public safety. These local agencies include the police, local government, the fire authorities and, in England, primary care trusts, or, in Wales, local health boards.

Supplementing the report are:

  • case studies that provide examples of how local agencies are dealing with crime and anti-social behaviour at a neighbourhood level; and
  • guidance for local agencies in drawing up neighbourhood profiles and value for money assessments of community safety-related activity.

Neighbourhood crime and anti-social behaviour – study specification

Neighbourhood Crime and Anti-social Behaviour - study specification (PDF, 126Kb) sets out the Audit Commission's proposals to conduct a study of how agencies and local communities can work together to make people living in different types of high crime and/or high disorder neighbourhoods be and feel safer.

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