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2010 Drug strategy consultation paper

5 October 2010

Background

The government plans to publish a new drug strategy later this year. This targeted consultation provided an early opportunity for a wide range of partners to contribute to the development of the new strategy.

Questions were asked around four key themes led by the following government departments:

• Department for Education: preventing drug use
• Home Office and Ministry of Justice: strengthening enforcement, criminal justice and legal framework
• Department of Health: rebalancing treatment to support drug-free outcomes
• Department for Work and Pensions: supporting recovery to break the cycle of drug addiction

The Department for Work and Pensions asks the following questions:

1. Question E1: What interventions can be provided to better support the recovery and reintegration of drug and alcohol dependent offenders returning to communities from prison?
2. Question E2: What interventions could be provided to address any issues commonly facing people dependent on drugs or alcohol in relation to ho using?
3. Question E3: How might drug, alcohol and mental health services be more effective in working together to meet the needs of drug or alcohol dependent service users with mental health conditions?
4. Question E4: Do appropriate opportunities exist for the acquisition of skills and training for this group?
5. Question E5: Should we be making more of the potential to use the benefit system to offer claimants a choice between:
   some form of financial benefit sanction or additional support?
6. Question E6: What if anything could Jobcentre Plus do differently in engaging with this client group to better support recovery?
   
7. Question E7: In your experience, what interventions are most effective in helping this group find employment?
8. Question E8: What particular barriers do this group face when working or loo king for employment, and what could be done to address these?
9. Question E9: Based on your experience, how effective are whole family interventions as a way of tackling the harms of substance misuse?
10. Question E10: Is enough do ne to harness the recovery capital of families, partners and friends of people addicted to drugs or alcohol?
11. Question E11: Do drug and alcohol services adequately take into account the needs of those clients who have children?
    
12. Question E12: What problems do agencies working with drug or alcohol dependent parents face in trying to protect their children from harm, and what might be do ne to address any such issues?

Closing date for responses

The closing date for responses was 30 September 2010.

More information

• home office website

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