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National Evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme

In January 2013, Ecorys was commissioned by Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to lead a consortium providing an independent evaluation of the Phase One Troubled Families...

Understanding Adolescent Neglect: Troubled Teens: Executive Summary

The Children’s Society has recently begun a comprehensive research programme to explore adolescent neglect. This summary outlines the context for the programme and focuses on the first study on...

The Frontline Battle: An Inquiry into the Impact of Alcohol on Emergency Services by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm

The UK’s relationship with alcohol is not without consequence. Excessive drinking places an enormous burden on our emergency services, both at an organisational and individual level. Calculating the...

State of the Sector: Drug and alcohol family support

In order to gain an understanding of the current state of the family support sector, Adfam created two surveys. The first, Drug and Alcohol Family Support – 2014 Health Check (HC) ran between August...

State of the Sector: Drug and alcohol family support: Executive summary

The past few years have seen a huge amount of change in our field. We’ve seen the drug and alcohol treatment system fragment and reform, shaped by dramatically reduced budgets and a localism agenda...

An Independent Review into the impact on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction, and obesity

At the heart of this Review is a concern to ameliorate the human, social and economic cost of drug or alcohol addiction or obesity, by addressing the challenges in finding work facing people who are...

Specialist substance misuse services for young people: Main principles for commissioning

In April 2013, commissioning drug and alcohol misuse treatment services became the responsibility of local authorities. At that point local authorities were given greater autonomy to develop their...

Healthy, Happy, Safe?

The British Humanist Assiociation( BHA), like so many other groups and individuals, has long been committed to comprehensive, age-appropriate personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE)...

An evidence review of the outcomes that can be expected of drug misuse treatment in England

In March 2015, the Department of Health commissioned Public Health England (PHE) to “review the evidence on: what can be expected of the drug treatment and recovery system and provide advice to...

Burning Injustice: Reducing tobacco-driven harm and inequality

The APPG on Smoking and Health launched this Inquiry to review current action on tobacco control by central Government, local authorities and the National Health Service in a period of tight public...

Family Drug and Alcohol Court National Unit: independent evaluation

The Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC) aim to improve outcomes for children and families by providing an alternative way of working with parents involved in care proceedings who are experiencing...

A Manifesto for Change: The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children of Alcoholics

One in five children in the UK lives with a parent who drinks too much – that’s over 2.5 million children. They are Britain’s innocent victims of drink. Hard-drinking parents hurt their children for...

The Public Health Burden of Alcohol and the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Alcohol Control Policies: An evidence review

Alcohol is a prominent commodity in the UK marketplace. It is widely used in numerous social situations. For many, alcohol is associated with positive aspects of life; however there are currently...

Drug misuse prevention: targeted interventions

This guideline covers targeted interventions to prevent misuse of drugs, including illegal drugs, 'legal highs' and prescription-only medicines. It aims to prevent or delay harmful use of drugs in...

Highways and buyways: A snapshot of UK drug scenes 2016

The idea of the survey is to get a snapshot in time of what is happening with UK street drug markets. Previous surveys were conducted as telephone interviews with local drugs workers, Drug Action...

Voices of older people affected by a loved one’s substance use

Adfam’s Older Carers group is funded by the City Bridge Trust of the City of London to address the isolation faced by older carers of those with drug or alcohol problems. Looking around this...

Preventing Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Substance Use Problems

This paper intends to provide teachers, educators and the wider school workforce with practical guidelines on how to prevent children and young people from developing mental health problems as a...

Evaluation of Four Recovery Communities across England: Final report for the Give it Up project

Substance misuse is a key public health priority within the UK. Recent policy recommendations have highlighted the importance of providing services which focus on substance misuse recovery, not just...

Health matters: preventing drug misuse deaths

This professional resource outlines how providers and commissioners can prevent deaths from drug abuse.

Novel Psychoactive Substances insight Report: ‘‘The View from Young People’’

Addaction is a member of the Young People’s Health Partnership. As part of our work through the partnership we have identified a need to improve the ability of health and social care services to...

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