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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Health matters: preventing drug misuse deaths

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

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...

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...

Sex Work, Drug and Alcohol Use: Bringing the Voices of Sex Workers into the Policy and Service Development Framework in Wales

This document reports on the second stage of a research project that has been carried out to provide a better understanding of the connections between sex work and drug and alcohol misuse in Wales...

Making it Happen

This document provides guidance for commissioners on how to ensure the needs of families affected by drugs and alcohol are met, and builds on the ‘Why Invest’ resource produced by Adfam in 2015 which...

Drugs and Alcohol

Does Britain have a drink problem? The statistics suggest so. Ahead of a major BASW conference on the issue Shahid Naqvi takes a look at the changing landscape and the challenges facing professionals

Trafficking and Exploitation Strategy

Human trafficking and exploitation are complex and hidden crimes, as well as abuses of human rights and dignity. Trading adults and children as commodities and exploiting them for profit or personal...

United Kingdom, Country Drug Report 2017

This report presents the top-level overview of the drug situation in the United Kingdom, covering drug supply, use and public health problems as well as drug policy and responses. The statistical...

2017 Drug Strategy

The complexity and pervasiveness of drug misuse and the harms it causes means that no one can tackle it alone. Government at both national and local levels, international partners, the voluntary and...

Family Safeguarding Hertfordshire: Evaluation Report

Family Safeguarding Hertfordshire (FSH) is a whole-system reform of Children’s Services which aims to improve the quality of work undertaken with families, and thereby outcomes for children and...

Briefing report on the roundtable on children who go missing and are criminally exploited by gangs

Children and young people who go missing from home or care are at serious risk of being targeted for involvement in gangs, trafficking, criminalisation, sexual exploitation and violence. Recognising...

Criminal Exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: County Lines guidance

Who’s this guidance for? This guidance is primarily aimed at frontline staff who work with children, young people and potentially vulnerable adults. This includes professionals working in education,...

Better care for people with co-occurring mental health and alcohol/drug use conditions

It is very common for people to experience problems with their mental health and alcohol/drug use (co-occurring conditions) at the same time. Research shows that mental health problems are...

Multiple Needs: Time for political leadership

The government has stated its determination to tackle an escalating set of crises: homelessness, substance misuse, mental ill health and persistently high re-offending rates. Despite some progress,...

Mapping the Maze: Services for women experiencing multiple disadvantage in England and Wales

Women’s and men’s experiences of multiple disadvantage are significantly different. Women facing homelessness, substance misuse and contact with the criminal justice system are more likely to have...

Supporting families where parents have substance misuse problems: Final evaluation of our FED UP service

FED UP programme Family Environment: Drug Using Parents (FED UP) is an intensive intervention for families with children aged five to 12 years, in which there is parental substance misuse. It aims to...

Calling Time: Addressing ageism and age discrimination in alcohol policy, practice and research

This report reveals evidence of age discrimination in alcohol policy, practice and research. The findings are based on a survey of professionals, interviews and focus groups with older adults with...

Young People’s Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS): 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017

The statistics in this report present information collected through the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) about young people under the age of 18 who received specialist substance...

Under the spotlight: reviewing police and crime plans for multiple and complex needs, and transition to adulthood

Since the election of the first Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) in November 2012, PCCs have emerged as influential leaders at a local and national level. Faced with the difficult challenge of...

“Like sugar for adults”: The effect of non-dependent parental drinking on children & families

This mixed methods study analysed data generated from a public inquiry, four focus groups, and an online survey representative of the UK population. The survey included linked answers from 997...

State of the Sector 2017: Beyond the Tipping Point

This report was commissioned as part of the work of the Recovery Partnership, by Department of Health as one of a series of “State of the Sector” reports on the drug and alcohol treatment sector in...

Overwhelming problems damaging children’s well-being: Spotlight on the impact of parents’ alcohol abuse on children

The Children’s Society estimates there are 700,000 young people aged 10–17 with a parent who abuses alcohol, according to analysis undertaken as part of the Good Childhood Report 2017. This is...

Public Involvement in Alcohol Research

In late 2016, Alcohol Research UK initiated a programme of work exploring public involvement in alcohol research. Over the following months, we ran a series of national events with service providers...

Parents under pressure: a programme for families with parental substance misuse: an evaluation of impact, process and cost-effectiveness

Many babies in the UK are born to substance-dependent parents, and dependence on psychoactive drugs during the postnatal period is associated with high rates of child maltreatment. Around a quarter...

An evaluation of ‘Parents under pressure’ a parenting programme for mothers and fathers who misuse substances

Not all parents who misuse drugs or alcohol present a danger to their children; nevertheless, parental substance misuse can place babies and children at increased risk of maltreatment. Almost half of...

Women Affected by Domestic Violence or Abuse and Someone Else’s Substance Use

This consultation was carried out as the first stage of a project funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s ‘Tampon Tax’, enabling Adfam to build on earlier work addressing the dual...

Routine Enquiry about Adverse Childhood Experiences Implementation pack pilot evaluation (final report)

Authors: Zara Quigg, Selina Wallis, Nadia Butler A wealth of research has highlighted strong associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), including child sexual abuse and exploitation (...

From prison to work

Authors: Graham Durcan, Jonathan Allan and Ian S. Hamilton 72,000 people were released from prison in the UK last year, and roughly 90% will have some form of mental health or substance abuse need...

Leading change: the role of local authorities in supporting women with multiple needs

There are women with multiple needs in contact with, or on the edges of, the criminal justice system in every local authority area. A number of local, regional and national authorities and...

Desperate for a Fix

Heroin and crack cocaine, along with the recent explosion in New Psychoactive Substances, are not only blighting communities but drive as much as 50 per cent of all acquisitive crime, and 70 per cent...

Spotlight on Substance Misuse

Through the Second Generation Project, Revolving Doors Agency works with Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) across the country to help them to develop better service responses for people in the...

Who do u think I am?

A black girl growing up in poverty in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles, Annie Yellowe Palma faced almost every kind of disadvantage and discrimination. Now a social worker, she tells...

“Are they shouting because of me?”

Introduction from the Children’s Commissioner, Anne Longfield “They hate the problem, they love the parent” - support worker Much of the research into the impact on children of living in households...

The physical health of people with mental health conditions and/or addiction

This report follows on from an earlier literature review The physical health of people with a serious mental illness and/or addiction: An evidence review (Te Pou o te Whakaaro Nui, 2014). The 2014...

A ‘Whole Council’ Approach to Gambling

The purpose of this guide is to help embed public health and the wider determinants of health into the gambling review policy process being undertaken by local authorities. To that end, it is aimed...

Age 2 to 18: Systems to protect children from severe disadvantage

Author: Ita Walsh I embarked on the groundwork for this report following WAVE’s 2014/15 global research project, funded by the LankellyChase Foundation, to identify (a) whole life course transitions...

Addressing the impact of nondependent parental substance misuse upon children

Authors: McGovern, R., Gilvarry, E., Addison, M., Alderson, H., Carr, L., Geijer-Simpson, E., Hrisos, N. Lingam, R., Minos, D. Smart, D. and Kaner, E. Statement of purpose This review examines the...

Prevention before cure: Securing the long-term sustainability of the NHS

Advances in diagnosis and treatment have meant that as a society we are all living longer. Yet despite average life expectancy increasing for both men and for women, the number of years we spend...

Working together: Helping to support and transform the lives of people affected by drug and alcohol problems

Drinking and drug problems remain, sadly, all too common. While alcohol consumption is falling, too many adults still regularly consume more than they should. It means alcohol misuse is the biggest...

The Children’s Inquiry

Authors: Liz McCulloch, Hardeep Matharu and Paul North As the most widely used illicit drug in the UK, cannabis arguably generates the most debate among the public, politicians and the media. But,...

Jumping through hoops: How are coordinated responses to multiple disadvantage meeting the needs of women?

In 2017, Agenda and AVA published Mapping the Maze, which provided a broad picture of the support that homelessness, substance misuse, mental health and criminal justice services are providing to...

Opioid Substitute Treatment (OST) and risks to children: Good Practice Guide

This guide is developed from two reports produced by Adfam in 2014 and 2015 on Medications in drug treatment: tackling the risks to children. It is designed for any practitioner who comes into...

Information and advice for the families of people living with Hepatitis C

Adfam is the national organisation that works to improve life for families affected by drugs and alcohol. This resource provides helpful information for the families of people living with hepatitis C...

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