North East Lincolnshire
Drug & Alcohol Action Team (DAAT)
Our Priorities
North East Lincolnshire Drug & Alcohol Action Team Priorities are in line with "Drugs: Protecting families and communities, The 2008 drug strategy". The four areas are:
Protecting communities through robust enforcement to tackle drug supply, drug-related crime and antisocial behaviour. Developing ways to regularly engage and respond to the needs of communities and to increase the seizure of criminal assets, delivering visible benefits to communities and strengthening the capacity of agencies to tackle crime in their areas and the supply of drugs into and within the UK. We will reduce drug-related offending through more effective targeting and offender management, continuing to identify and grip drug-misusing offenders, so that we drive down anti-social behaviour and crimes such as burglary and robbery, which have such a corrosive effect on the confidence of communities.
Preventing harm to children, young people and families affected by drug misuse. Targeting interventions on those young people and families most at risk of suffering harms caused by substance misuse. We will intervene earlier with young people to prevent immediate harms and to avert future problematic drug use and we will provide prompt and tailored support to families with substance-misusing parents. Providing a family focus will ensure that the needs of the children and families of drug users are given a greater priority than they have previously received.
Delivering new approaches to drug treatment and social re-integration. We will further reform the way treatment is provided, offering services such as training and support in getting work, alongside drug treatment. We will also use the benefits system to support this new focus on re-integration, providing the right level of support for people with drug problems to move towards treatment, training and employment. This will allow us to respond more directly to individual needs, helping drug misusers to overcome dependence and reestablish their lives. The previous strategy successfully delivered an expanded and accessible treatment system. This strategy builds on this to focus more on the longer-term outcomes of treatment, including its impact on crime, health and harms caused to families.
Public information campaigns, communications and community engagement. Developing communication and education campaigns, involving young people, communities, families and parents to make clear the harms that all drugs can cause, supporting informed decisions and determining locally appropriate responses to drug misuse.
