By The Chartered Institute for Housing (September 2012)
The Department for Communities and Local Government has worked with the Recovery Partnership and local drugs and alcohol treatment teams to support the development of a series of case studies which highlight local activities to assist recovery through housing support.
By Royal College of Psychiatrists (September 2012)
This report will help commissioners, providers, regulators, policy makers, doctors and those seeking recovery from drug or alcohol use to ensure that drug and alcohol services make the best use of resources to deliver the highest possible standard of care across the entire pathway and that all doctors working with people using drugs and alcohol have the right level of competency for the roles and responsibilities they undertake.
By Adfam (2012)
In 2011 Adfam and AVA began working together on a new project, looking at the experiences of parents who were victims of domestic abuse from their substance using children. In September, October and November 2011 focus groups were held around England consulting 88 parents on how child to parent violence (CPV) was manifest in their lives and which services they had turned to for support. The findings from these focus groups were used for the writing of this report.
By The Children’s Commissioner (September 2012)
This briefing outlines key findings and themes from a rapid evidence assessment on parental alcohol misuse. It outlines the need for earlier intervention and support from children’s social care services and is aimed at policy makers and those who commission and provide local services.
By Community Care Online (2012)
There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to risk assessing parents who misuse drugs and alcohol. Each case is different, depending on the circumstances. Community Care asked three experts what children’s social workers should look out for.
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By The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (August 2012)
This study explored the lives of young people in two regions of England where alcohol-related harm rates differ and found that: the north has a higher degree of reported indicators of alcohol-related harms than the south-east and the south-west, but despite this young people’s drinking behaviour in these areas followed similar patterns; young people rarely drank on their own; young people actively sought out clusters of youth-orientated bars, and sometimes these clusters encouraged young people to drink more than they intended; and planning authorities had often been unable to resist commercial pressures to allow clubs and bars to fill units that would otherwise be vacant, despite a wish to limit the number of licensed premises.
By Public Health Observatories (2012)
The North West Public Health Observatory is pleased to announce publication of the Local Alcohol Profiles for England 2012 (LAPE) on behalf of the Public Health Observatories in England. The profiles contain 25 alcohol-related indicators for every local Authority (LA) and 22 for every PCT; the indicators measure the impact of alcohol on local communities, including local area data on alcohol-related hospital admissions and alcohol-related crime.
By The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (August 2012)
Following the findings of an audit of data returns, which identified troubling discrepancies in performance between individual residential rehabs in England, the NTA is to step up its engagement with the residential rehab sector in order to challenge commissioners who inappropriately restrict access and help under-performing providers.
By The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (August 2012)
A unique analysis of drug treatment data shows more people are overcoming dependency and services are getting better at getting people into recovery.
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By The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (August 2012)
This study examined the lives of young people who drink little or no alcohol, and found that: