May Issues 'Call to Action' For Communities over ASB

Home Secretary Theresa May has issued a "call to action" for community activists to tackle neighbourhood problems alongside frontline services. Mrs May has said the Government's approach to tackling anti-social behaviour must be turned on its head, with strong community action being used to bring back a sense of personal and social responsibility and to make anti-social behaviour "unusual, abnormal and something to stand up to". "Anti-social behaviour ruins lives and scars communities - for too long it has been sidelined and communities have been let down," Mrs May said. Read more on 24dash.