On behalf of the Community Safety Partnership Manchester City Council is currently undertaking a review, including public consultation, of the ASB Case Review (also referred to as the Community 
Trigger) Procedure. More broadly the public are being asked for their views regarding the Council’s ASB Policy and Procedures.
The purpose of an ASB Case Review is to give victims and communities the right to request a review of their case where a local threshold is met, and to bring agencies together to take a joined up, problem-solving approach to find a solution for the victim. In Manchester the ASB Case Review Procedure is coordinated by the Council’s Community Safety Team. Last year the Community Safety Partnership undertook twenty statutory reviews.
The Community Safety Partnership intend to continue with the same threshold for a review which is three incidents of anti-social behaviour in the last six months. Having considered the 2022 ASB Statutory Guidance and developments in their practice the Community Safety Partnership believe there is opportunity to involve ASB victims more meaningfully in the review by giving them and or their representative or support person the opportunity to attend the panel meeting to explain to partners the impacts of the ASB. The Community Safety Partnership believe the chair of the ASB Case Review panel should be independent to the ASB investigation and in the absence of legislation and guidance an appeal criterion should be introduced.
The Council are asking the public and partners their views on the opportunities to improve the ASB Case Procedure and the ASB Policy and Procedures through focus groups and an online survey Anti-Social Behaviour Policy and Procedure Survey the survey closes on 18 November 2022.