Mechanisms for reporting anti-social behaviour need to be accessible and safe

This includes providing safe spaces for people to report ASB and reassuring them that they will not be penalised by their landlord for reporting it. Speaking at the Inside Housing and Social Housing Tenant and Resident Engagement Conference in September, Manjit Sidhu of South Tyneside Council Housing Services, shared her experience of an estate with a high percentage of Muslim residents where the first reports of ASB were often heard by community leaders in the local mosque.  She told attendees that monthly community meetings can come with language and cultural barriers, and residents who were scared to report, or unsure how to report, anti-social behaviour.  She advised landlords to go to the residents' safe space to enable them to report ASB issues.