ASB Awareness Week
This toolkit encourages fire and rescue services to participate in Resolve’s ASB Awareness Week. The campaign runs from 29 June- 5 July 2026.
Resolve is the UK’s leading community safety organisation and the campaign brings together emergency services, local government, housing, charities and community partners to shine a spotlight on antisocial behaviour.
Find out more about the campaign and some supporting resources on Resolve’s website.
Why anti‑social behaviour matters to fire
Anti‑social behaviour (ASB) refers to a range of activities that cause harassment, alarm or distress within communities. ASB can have a significant impact on community safety, wellbeing and public confidence, and may escalate into more serious harm if not addressed early. Fire‑related ASB, including deliberate small fires, vandalism and youth firesetting, presents particular risks, with the potential to rapidly escalate into incidents that threaten life, damage property and place additional pressure on fire and rescue services.
Fire and rescue services play a vital role through early intervention, education, safeguarding and partnership working to reduce risk, prevent escalation, and protect people, property and communities.
As part of NFCC’s support for the week will encourage fire and rescue services to highlight their local campaigns, interventions and safety advice to reduce risk to individuals and communities.
Objectives
During Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week, fire and rescue services can help raise awareness of fire-related anti-social behaviour and its impact on communities through targeted prevention activity, community engagement, and partnership working. Services can promote safe and responsible behaviour among young people and adults by delivering education sessions in schools and youth settings, attending community events, and engaging directly with residents in hotspot areas.
Fire and rescue services can also encourage the reporting of anti-social behaviour and fire-setting concerns by sharing information on reporting routes, which can include Firestoppers for those fire services that promote it, and working closely with local partners to identify and address risks early. Joint activity with police, local authorities, housing providers, and community safety partnerships can strengthen local responses to anti-social behaviour, while highlighting the important prevention and early intervention work carried out by fire and rescue services to help keep communities safe.
NFCC supporting products
NFCC log in may be required to access member products.
NFCC has developed a number of products to support fire and rescue service members’ work in tackling ASB and to help reflect Prevention Fire Standard.
Arson and Anti-social Behaviour 1 Billion Readiness Videos
StayWise
StayWise – NFCC’s education platform has a number of resources for FRS practitioners to access and support messaging in education engagement activities including resources to support SVD and FSI. Create an account to access the resources.
Visit StayWise
Fire Safety Intervention Guidance
Updated NFCC Fire Safety Intervention Guidance developed through national consultation, reflects best practice from across the UK and reinforces our shared commitment to safeguarding, prevention and positive behaviour change. It provides a clear framework to support practitioners working with children and young people who misuse fire, promoting trauma informed, professional and consistent approaches that protect communities and improve lives.
Access Fire Safety Intervention Guidance
Person Centred Framework
Deliberate fires is a core component of the framework and one of the components of the Online Home Fire Safety Check. The tool can be promoted as part of the week. Other referral routes into your service must also be promoted where a heightened home fire safety visit referral might be needed.
Find out more about the Person Centred Framework
Serious Violence Duty (England and Wales)
Preventing arson forms part of FRS responsibilities under the Serious Violence Duty (SVD). The Duty was introduced by the Police, Crime Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and came into effect on 31 January 2023.
An NFCC briefing note was made available to FRSs to support SVD
Early Intervention Framework
Guidance and a suite of tools to support FRSs in delivering effective early intervention programmes.
Find out more about the Early Intervention Framework
Equality of Access
A number of the Equality of Access document have useful information to consider when supporting people who may be at additional risk of fire, which may be useful based on local need.
See the Equality of Access documents
ASB Digital Summit
Resolve is holding a number of sessions, bringing together national experts, practitioners and community voices. The sessions are free to join but spaces are limited.
29 June – Understanding the ASB landscape 12pm-1pm
Introduction to the latest data, trends and challenges, followed by the parliamentary launch of this year’s campaign week Register to join
30 June – Victims’ Day 12pm-1pm (with ASB Help)
A focus on victims’ rights, reporting and lived experience. Register to join
1 July – Let’s talk ASB 12pm-1pm (with Neighbourhood Watch)
Exploring community-led approaches, neighbourhood confidence, and the role of residents in prevention, reporting and local problem solving. Register to join.
2 July – Frontline excellence 12pm-1pm
Good practice from practitioners – Innovative practice, case studies and multi-agency solutions from officers working on the frontline of ASB and community safety. Register to join.
3 July – Young people & ASB; Prevention, opportunity & positive pathways 12pm-1pm
Reframing the narrative around young people and focusing on early intervention, youth voice, positive diversion and the role of opportunity in reducing ASB. Register to join.
Supporting activities
NFCC will issue a national release to support the week. Analysis of UK fire statistics has been undertaken to support and out focus will be deliberate secondary fires.
- 46% of all fires attended by FRS in the UK in 2024/25 were deliberately set
- 56% of all fires attended were secondary fires
- 63% of secondary fires deliberately set
- 36% of all fires attended by UK fire and rescue services in the UK were deliberate secondary fires, these are the most common category of fires attended
Community engagement
- Pop-up safety stands in town centres
- School and youth group visits – StayWise has resources to support
- Joint patrols with neighbourhood policing teams
- Community walkabouts in hotspot areas
- Engagement at community events
Prevention activity
- Removal of combustible materials in hotspot areas
- Joint visits with housing providers
- Letter drops in affected areas
- Home Fire Safety Visits linked to ASB concerns
Partnership working
Consider how you can work with or highlight how you currently work with
- Police
- Local authorities
- Community safety partnerships
- Housing associations
- Youth offending teams
- Schools and colleges
- Voluntary and community sector organisations
Social media
We’re supporting Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week. Reducing anti-social behaviour helps reduce deliberate fires. Working together, we can keep our communities safer. #ASBAwarenessWeek #MakingCommunitiesSafer
Anti-social behaviour can lead to deliberate fires, putting lives, homes, and communities at risk. Small fires involving bins, grass, or rubbish can quickly spread. If you see fire-setting behaviour, report it:
Always report a fire by calling 999
Report information about deliberate fire setting in your community anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111
You can also contact your local police via their website or by calling 101
Help us keep your community safe.
#ASBAwarenessWeek #MakingCommunitiesSafer
Deliberate fires linked to anti-social behaviour create avoidable risks for firefighters and the public. These incidents can tie up valuable fire service resources from other emergencies. #ASBAwarenessWeek
Young people don’t always realise the consequences of deliberate fire-setting.
Even a small deliberate fire can:
Cause serious damage or injury
Delay crews from dealing with other life-threatening emergencies
Damage open spaces, wildlife and the environment
Lead to a criminal record
We encourage parents and carers to speak to young people about the dangers. If you are concerned about fire setting behaviour of a young person contact your local fires and recue service for advice and support. #ASBAwarenessWeek #MakingCommuntiesSafer
If you are concerned about fire safety, including the fire risk of antisocial behaviour on you or your home, complete an Online Home First Safety Check for fire safety advice. If the risk of fire has been used to threaten you or your home or have already experienced an incident, contact your fire and rescue service for a visit to help keep you safe. #ASBAwarenessWeek #MakingCommunitiesSafer