The Future for Drug and Alcohol Action (London)
We are also running this event in Manchester on 28th March, for details please click here
Confirmed Speakers Include:
- Ahmed Azam, Head of Strategy Team, Drug & Alcohol Unit, Home Office
- Pete Burkinshaw, Skills and Development Manager, NTA
- Rachel Radice, Drugs & Alcohol Policy Team Lead, DWP
- Colin Wilkie-Jones, Chief Executive, eATA
- Roger King, Director, Safer & Stronger Solutions (chair)
The Context
Drug and alcohol treatment services play a vital role in ensuring safe and healthy communities. The landscape in which they operate is changing though with future drug funding to be divided between Local Directors of Public Health and Police and Crime Commissioners, while a new Alcohol Strategy will outline future Government action for tackling alcohol misuse. What do these and other developments mean for frontline practitioners and services?
The Issues
Key issues to be addressed at this Policy and Practice Briefing include:
- How much progress has been made in delivering the Government’s drug strategy?
- What does the Alcohol Strategy mean for stakeholders?
- How will new funding and commissioning arrangements work?
- How much of an impact will Police and Crime Commissioners have over drug services?
- How are payment by results schemes developing?
- What more can be done to tackle alcohol misuse in our communities?
- How can drug and alcohol treatment services become more aligned?
- What will service provision look like in the future?
- Do DAAT teams have a future?
The Event
Participants at this Westminster Briefingwill be briefed about and discuss current and future developments affecting the delivery of drug and alcohol services.
The morning session will focus on drugs, examining the implications of the Government’s approach for frontline practitioners and services.
The afternoon session will concentrate on alcohol, looking at the Government’s new strategy, what more can be done to tackle alcohol misuse in our communities and the future for Drug and Alcohol Action Teams.
Who Should Attend?
All those with a working interest in this important area, including: DAATs, community safety teams, local health services, CSPs, the police, prison/probation, elected members, central government departments & bodies, academia, and voluntary sectors.
- Thursday, 15th March 2012
- 11.00am – 3.30pm (including networking lunch)
- ETC Venues, One Drummond Gate, Victoria, SW1V 2QQ
- £225 per place or £175 for two or more places
Background Quote
Rt Hon Andrew Lansley MP, Health Secretary, December 2011“These figures are disturbing evidence that, despite total consumption of alcohol not increasing recently, we have serious problems with both binge drinking and long-term excessive alcohol abuse in a minority of people... Our alcohol strategy, which we will set out in the New Year, will outline what further steps we are taking to tackle this growing problem.”
Rt Hon Nick Herbert MP, Minister For Policing & Criminal Justice, November 2011“Their broader remit to ensure crime reduction involves powers, not available to Police Authorities, to use their budgets to commission services from public, private and voluntary sector partners... This is an important new role that brings significance to the word ‘commissioner’.”
