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Housing Service Harassment Policy
Meeting: 02/07/2015 - Cabinet (Item 20)
20 Housing Service Harassment Policy (00-34-34) 
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Arising from a report of the Head of Housing and Property Services and a recommendation from the Decent and Affordable Homes Policy Development Group, the PDG had recommended that the adoption of the new Harassment Policy be recommended to Council.
Minutes:
Arising from a report of the Head of Housing and Property Services and a recommendation from the Decent and Affordable Homes Policy Development Group, the PDG had recommended that the adoption of the new Harassment Policy be recommended to Council.
The Cabinet Member for Housing stated that the Housing Service were required to have policy and procedural commitments relating to the prevention and management of racial and other harassment and that this policy had been drafted to complement the revised Anti-Social Behaviour policy and procedures.
Discussion followed with regard to the health and safety of officers and incidents that had taken place.
RECOMMENDED to Council that the Harassment Policy be approved subject to the insertion of an additional paragraph at 16.2 to state that: “Tenants, their households or visitors must not harass, intimidate, verbally abuse, physically abuse, use violence or threaten to use violence towards our staff, contractors or agents, in accordance with the terms of the Council’s standard tenancy agreements. We have robust procedures in place to maintain the health and safety of our officers and we will notify the Police, as appropriate, and if the victim wishes, if we feel that any of our staff are being affected by harassment or hate crime arising from their work”.
(Proposed by Chairman)
Note: *Report previously circulated, copy attached to minutes.