Background Putting victims first: More effective responses to anti-social behaviour
12.In May 2012, the Home Office published a White Paper, Putting victims first: more effective responses to anti-social behaviour (the White Paper included a summary of responses to the earlier consultation).(2) This set out how the Government would support local areas to:
13.The reforms proposed were designed to provide better protection for victims and communities, and ensure that professionals had effective powers that were quick, practical and easy to use, and acted as real deterrents to perpetrators – replacing 19 of the complex existing powers (see Annex B) with six simpler and more flexible new ones, and giving victims a say in how agencies tackle anti-social behaviour.