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Angus Community Safety and Antisocial Behaviour Strategy 2009-12 | 9Aims and objectivesVisionThe Angus Community Safety Partnership has acommitment to making communities in Anguspleasant and secure places to live. This strategyaims to reinforce the views of the partnership onthe unacceptability of antisocial behaviour in anyform, and outlines how the partnership willactively promote community safety within ourcommunities.Strategic AimsThe strategy has three strategic aims• Early Intervention and Prevention• Enforcement and Support• Community EngagementThe key delivery actions (appendix 2), as well asthe local outcomes, indicators and targets(appendix 3), all reflect these strategic aims.Key ObjectivesThe key objectives of the Angus CommunitySafety and Antisocial Behaviour Strategy are:• To work with children, families and adultsfrom the earliest possible point• To promote the responsibility of allcommunity members to respect themselves,their immediate neighbours and thecommunity in general• To support communities, including thegeneral majority of people who want to liveharmoniously with others in a safe andsecure environment while confronting thesmall minority of people whose behaviourundermines this• To prevent antisocial behaviour arising andescalating through early detection andproactive management.Single Outcome AgreementIn November 2007, the Scottish Government andCOSLA agreed a concordat setting out the termsof a new relationship between the ScottishGovernment and local government.The concordat is underpinned by a SingleOutcome Agreement between ScottishGovernment and Community PlanningPartnerships. This is based on a set of 15 nationaloutcomes which sets out local outcomesindicators and targets.The national outcome which is relevant to theCommunity Safety Partnership is:• National Outcome 9: We live our lives freefrom crime, disorder and dangerNational FrameworkIn February 2009, the Scottish Governmentlaunched its new framework for preventingantisocial behaviour in Scotland called “PromotingPositive Outcomes: Working Together to PreventAntisocial Behaviour in Scotland”.This framework rests on four pillars - prevention,integration, engagement and communication.Further guidance is due later in the year detailinghow national actions and local recommendationswill be delivered.These four pillars of the national frameworkmirror the three strategic aims outlined in thisstrategy.