Anti Social and Criminal Behaviour Strategy in Scotland: What's working and what will budget cuts mean?

A one day conference on Wednesday 27th October, 2010 - King James Thistle Hotel, Edinburgh.  EH1 3SW

Keynote Speaker: Bill Aitken MSP, Scottish Parliament Justice Convener and Shadow Minister for Community Safety

Other Speakers include:

Mark Turley, Director of Services for Communities, City of Edinburgh Council

T/ACC Gordon Samson, Central Scotland Police, ACPOS

Sandy Riddell, Convenor of ADSW Criminal Justice system in transition

The Scottish Government puts tackling the underlying causes of crime as a key plank of its crime prevention strategy.  Changing Scotland's drinking culture, introducing a national drugs strategy and tackling poverty and social exclusion are the priority policy areas of the Scottish Government approach.

In March 2009 the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities jointly published their framework for tackling anti social behaviour, "Promoting Positive Outcomes".  The four pillars of the framework are prevention, integration, engagement and communication.  The framework sets out how the Scottish Government and local authorities will jointly deliver the anti social behaviour strategy through individual council's Single Outcome Agreements developed out of the concordat.

 This one day conference will review the results so far of this strategy, looking at what has been sucessful and where more work needs to be done.  The conference will examine the relationship between anti social and criminal behaviour and will also assess the implications of forthcoming public sector budget cuts for preventative and rehabilitation work in tackling anti social behaviour.

Speakers will include both policy makers and professionals tasked with delivering policies to tackle anti social behaviour in Scotland.

Conference Fees

Full - £243.00 + VAT
private sector
Standard - £212.00 + VAT
public sector
Reduced - £171.00 + VAT
professional bodies, trade unions, charities with turnover greater than £1M, universities and colleges
Supported - £108.00 + VAT
charities with turnover less than £1M, voluntary and community organisations