The scenario is this. Council tenant has a badly behaved adult son.

Reports are made to the council about this person.

Council issue letters with an intention to seek an eviction order for the parents. (said person does not live with them nor frequent their property on a regular basis, they threw him out over a year ago)

In addition, notice also issued to his g/f as he visits her home and a relative as he has his mail delivered there.

Badly behaved son is living with friends at a completely unconnected address.

Now whilst this person does visit his family, he does not participate in anti social behaviour whilst doing so. These people have been threatened with losing their homes purely on the basis that they know him and he does visit.

Is this fair?

Where does the blame lie? If my son were grown up and moved out, and he got into trouble. Should I be held accountable for his actions, even when they took place away from my home?

how old is this lovely lad?

He's 18 going on 8

old enough to know better as they say. his parents and family need ot tlak to him and let him know they wont stand for it. not fair on them. he needs to grow up. ASBO indeed, what do they actually mean? a bit of paper that you sign saying you wont be naughty again?? mmm, i have mixed feelings about whether they are worth it.
Should be three hits and ur out!

I would think that if the person no longer lives there it is nothing to do with the tennants, unless he is being antisocial while on the premises. Otherewise everyone who lives in a council house would be in the same boat just because they happen to know someone anti social.

Unless the council are using these threats in the hope the people who know him can calm him down in some way, but it seems pretty daft if they are.

I know years ago on council rent books it did say you were responsible for the behaviour of your friends/guests, but if he is not coming round often and behaving himself and is not classed as a minor, it shouldn't be your problem.

he sounds like he needs poke in eye

Do the council actually know that he doesn't live there now?

If he is still registered as living there - for benefits, electoral roll, mobile phone bill, blah, blah... Of course it's the parents who'll get it in the neck. If he were mine, I would be ensuring he wasn't tarring my records with his behaviour and have his mail etc. sent back where it came from to be sorted out. :mad:

Our family are in the middle of disentangling ourselves from a bad debtor amongst us. We have all lived at each others houses at some point or another due to relocation, and we need to ensure we don't appear on each other's records (which I know we actually do, because I've contacted experian)

We haven't fallen out with each other - it's just a paperwork excercise to protect us from 'records'