Rochdale Borough Respect Programme

Rochdale Borough Respect Programme Booklet Cover

Some households are responsible for a very high proportion of anti-social behaviour; the families are well known to agencies and shockingly can cost services between £250,000 and £333,000 per family per year!

Rochdale Borough Respect Programme is a wide ranging response to anti-social behaviour and its causes.

Rochdale Council has organised a series of launch events throughout the borough and published a booklet outlining the aims and objectives of the programme.

The booklet explains the Respect Programme is a “means promoting good behaviour – for example in work with young people. It means councils, police, social landlords and others tackling anti-social behaviour head on. It means getting schools, social and children’s services more involved in tackling bad behaviour and challenging key causes of anti-social behaviour like poor parenting.”

The author of the booklet goes on to say: “It means a broad approach to help build a modern culture of respect. This approach is about making services better at managing behaviour – tackling bad and promoting good. Doing that is central to delivering on issues like social justice and child poverty, as well as dealing with anti-social behaviour that blights people’s lives.

“Effective responses to anti-social behaviour and its causes improve outcomes for the community, the perpetrators and their children and can be highly cost effective.”

The Respect Programme launches in Heywood and Pennies have taken place, the Middleton and Rochdale events are mid July:

• Middleton
  18 July 3.30pm – 6.30pm at Heywood Civic Centre
• Rochdale
  19 July 4.00pm – 7.00pm at Rochdale Town Hall

The events provide a range of information and advice stalls supported by a variety of participatory activities.