Aire Valley Homes Leeds signed the Respect Standard for Housing Management in the summer of 2007.
What's Respect about?
The Respect drive is a cross-Government strategy to tackle bad behaviour and nurture good - and so help create the modern culture of respect.
It is about central government, local agencies, local communities and ultimately every citizen working together to build a society in which we can respect one another – where anti-social behaviour is rare and tackled effectively, and communities can live in peace together.
It’s not about going back to the past or returning to the days of ‘knowing your place’.
- It’s about nurturing and, where needed, enforcing a modern culture of respect, which the majority of people want.
- It’s about showing tolerance, acceptance and common decency towards the people around us – 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’s about being considerate of the consequences of our behaviour for others.
For most of us this is automatic and ingrained in the habits of our everyday lives. But when respect for self, others and the community breaks down, anti-social behaviour takes hold.
Making offensive and threatening remarks, dumping litter and urinating in the street is clearly inconsiderate or disrespectful by any definition.
Respect or the lack of it does more than affect us as individuals. Understanding and adopting a code of behaviour is what makes society work as a whole and is why the government is so committed to working with the public to promote a new culture of respect.
Respect Standard for Housing Management
The Respect Standard for Housing Management, launched on Thursday 17 August 2006, outlines the core components essential to delivering an effective response to anti-social behaviour and building stronger communities, such as accountability, leadership, giving greater resident empowerment, and supporting community efforts at tackling anti-social behaviour.
Where people live is central to perceptions of anti-social behaviour. It is difficult to underestimate the anguish caused when people do not feel secure in their own home or neighbourhood.
Within effective neighbourhood management it is therefore particularly important to tackle place related anti-social behaviour issues – like nuisance neighbours, noise, rubbish and other housing issues. That means engaging social landlords and others. However, the tenure mix in local areas is becoming more and more complex – and problems do not only occur in social housing. Problems can arise in private rented and owner occupied properties and these must also be tackled effectively.
For further information on Respect please see the links and downloads on the right.