Street services
Our street service teams use an assertive outreach approach to proactively engage with individuals on the streets. The teams use a street management model based on partnership working with the police and local authorities. Their primary aim is to help people to move off the streets into some form of appropriate accommodation. They also seek to address other needs such as substance misuse issues, mental health problems, unemployment or lack of skills.
Anti Social Behaviour
Persistent Shoplifters Project
Street Services Teams
Anti Social Behaviour
Enforcement measures such as acceptable behaviour agreements and anti social behaviour orders, as well as bans on drinking in public places, have provided police and local authorities with new mechanisms for tackling problems of social nuisance. CRI works closely with local authorities and with police to provide the social care element that enables the enforcement agenda to be delivered more effectively to prompt individuals to consider the impact of their behaviour and to change.
Individuals are encouraged to develop a sense of social responsibility and are motivated into changing their behaviour to enable them to gain access to other services. Individuals are both advised to use support services and to accept and acknowledge their responsibilities as members of society. Through the close co-ordination of the various agencies providing support services, people are given clear routes into treatment and, where necessary, enforcement agencies will require them to attend rehabilitation programmes.
CRI projects
Persistent Shoplifters Project
CRI is piloting an innovative project with 'persistent' shoplifters in Brighton that involves assertive outreach with individuals known to be responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime. This project demonstrates a strong approach to partnership through close working with the street services team, the drug action team, the local authority and the national retail crime unit.
CRI projects
Street Services Teams
Our street teams deliver assertive outreach services that proactively engage with individuals to address their behaviour and explain the choices available to them. Accommodation is the primary concern for many people, but most have additional needs, such as substance misuse issues, mental health problems, unemployment or lack of skills. These needs can be more appropriately addressed once people have been encouraged to leave the streets and enter some form of accommodation.
CRI's teams have developed a street management model based on new partnerships with the police and local authorities including, environmental health and housing departments. We are also working closely with women's refuges, 'Big Issue' distribution centres and other voluntary sector social care providers. These partnerships have helped move the community safety agenda forward by delivering a new mix of services that are proving highly effective in tackling the problems associated with street populations. We are addressing issues such as the intimidation of passers by, and our street services teams are increasingly adopting a high visibility strategy to help the public feel safer.
CRI projects
- Brent Outreach Engagement Team (BOET)
Brent Outreach Engagement Team (BOET), 6 Craven Park, Harlesden, Brent, London NW10 8SY
Tel: 0208 955 9710 - Night Shelter, Blackpool
Night Shelter, Blackpool, 57a Cookson Street, Blackpool, Lancashire FY1 3DR
Tel: 01253 623205 - SOT Leeds
SOT Leeds, 6 Blenheim Terrace, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9HZ
Tel: 0113 245 9445 - SST Bournemouth
SST Bournemouth, 43 Oxford Road, Bournemouth, Dorset BH8 8EY
Tel: 01202 209460 - SST Brighton
SST Brighton, 3A Vantage Point, New England Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 4GW
Tel: 01273 265672 - SST Cambridge
SST Cambridge, 2nd Floor, 125 Newmarket Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB5 8HA
Tel: 01223 366292 - SST Camden
SST Camden, 140-142 Kings Cross Road, Kings Cross, London WC1X 9DS
Tel: 020 7833 7970 - SST Oxford
SST Oxford, Oxford Council Town Hall, St Aldates, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1BX
Tel: 01865 252342
