Advice to Government: Equality Assessment Consultation on Anti-Social Behaviour Housing Proposals

NICCY welcomes the opportunity to respond to this consultation on the Equality Assessment Consultation in respect of housing-related Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) proposals, specifically injunctions against ASB and Absolute Grounds for Possession.

NICCY provided a response to the joint consultation on ASB proposals which ran from November 2023 until March 2024 from the Department of Justice and Department for Communities (DfC) making a series of recommendations which encouraged both Departments to conduct a full Equality Impact Assessment and Child’s Rights Impact Assessment (CRIA) on all the proposals contained within the consultation.

Furthermore, we encourage the Department to consider the Children and Young People’s Strategy 2020-2030 as part of this Equality Assessment, and indeed, the wider policy proposals.

The full response can be downloaded at the right-hand side of this page.