Housing sector proposals for dealing with antisocial tenants cheaply and quickly have been adopted by the Home Office.
On Wednesday, home secretary David Blunkett announced plans to set up community justice centres – a scheme that mirrors the Tenant Participation Advisory Service's 2002 proposal for a community alternative to the prolonged proceedings of the law courts.

The location of the pilots has yet to be confirmed but a spokesperson for the Home Office said they would involve "community service projects specifically designed to pay back the community harmed by crime".

Phil Morgan, chief executive of TPAS, said: "It's nice to see an idea that you put forward taken up by government. We now have to take the opportunity to make sure the ideas gets implemented."

Morgan is due to meet with Home Office and Antisocial Behaviour Unit representatives next week to discuss the plans.

Blunkett, who announced the justice plan during a speech to the Community Service Volunteers in London, also unveiled plans for giving communities a greater say in how they are policed.

He called for the wider dissemination of police performance data, and for tenants' organisations to become more involved in the policing of their areas.

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Housing Today