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The Partnership Board | Availability | Communities & Criminal Justice | Health & Social Care | Young People
Key Services
The Drug and Alcohol Action Team is charged with implementing the national drug strategy at the local level, but in addition agreed to include alcohol within its remit as from April 2000. This is an acknowledgement that alcohol misuse is often linked to illegal drug misuse, that alcohol fules crime, has an impact on community safety, individual and community health.
- The Partnership Board:
The Partnership Board members do not have to have a special knowledge in substance misuse but sit on the Board because they are chief officers so able to allocate resources and make decisions. - Availability:
To stifle the availability of illegal drugs on our streets - Communities & Criminal Justice:
The cohesion and well-being of local communities are vulnerable to the corrosive effects of drug misuse and the misery it causes. - Health & Social Care:
To enable people with drug problems to overcome them and live healthy and crime-free lives. The target is by 2008 to increase the participation of problem drug misusers in treatment programmes that have a positive impact on health and crime by 100% - Young People:
The Children's Act 2004 gives a particular leadership role to Local Authorities in setting up the arrangements to secure co-operation among local partners, such as PCTs and YOTs. The duty to co-operate, embedded in children's trust arrangements, operates not just at the strategic level but also at the front line.
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