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Introducing Change Grow Live’s new deputy chief executive
[…] Demand for our services is increasing. And there’s a growing recruitment crisis that’s not going away any time soon. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Dame Carol Black’s recommendations paved the way for an ambitious 10 year drug strategy, a new Joint Combating Drugs Unit, and substantial new investment. And the emphasis on understanding […]
In the right place
[…] of people, work can take up more than 60 per cent of their waking hours, so it’s no wonder that – as a survey quoted in Dame Carol Black’s 2016 independent review into the impact on employment outcomes of drug or alcohol addiction, and obesity said – ‘getting a job (and keeping a job) is […]
Phoenix Futures responds to Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs – Part 2
[…] investing in improving and saving lives. The report has identified the fault lines in our treatment system and provided a whole system approach to fixing them. Dame Carol Black has given a robust business case for the changes, including additional funding, and set out a clear narrative for why we can’t get it wrong. There […]
Benefit sanctions for refusing treatment
[…] treatment The government has reignited the debate over whether benefit entitlement should be linked to accepting treatment, with the publication of a new review by Professor Dame Carol Black. Couched in terms of exploring the best ways to ‘support benefit claimants with addictions and potentially treatable conditions’ – such as obesity – back into work, […]
DDN1607
[…] There’s a feeling at the centre that there’s only so much that you can do. But all of us know that workforce development is where it’s at. Carole Sharma, independent consultant (and CoG Group) We need buy-in from line managers. We’re developing aspirational training for line managers as well as looking at our induction […]
Working models
[…] with the ups and downs of people in recovery. I’d previously commissioned an IPS service for people with mental health issues so when I read Professor Dame Carol Black’s Independent review of drugs recommend that IPS be trialled with people with experience of drug and alcohol issues, I was very keen to find ways of […]
Government to consider benefit sanctions for refusing treatment
The government has re-ignited the debate over whether benefit entitlement should be linked to accepting treatment, with the publication of a new review by Professor Dame Carol Black. Couched in terms of exploring the best ways to ‘support benefit claimants with addictions and potentially treatable conditions’ – such as obesity – back into work, the […]
DDN150107
[…] their staff and improve the experience of service users. £110 + Vat per delegate Qualifications, competence and government targets – making it work 26 February Central London Carole Sharma Former NTA work-force development lead This one-day workshop will assist those responsible for workforce development in creating local systems for the development of the substance […]
DDN2010
[…] of the Auricular Acupuncture profession. 10% discount for Charities/Voluntary Sector organisations on all courses booked before 31st December 2008 Please contact us for a highly competetive quote Carole BishopBSc(Hons) DipAC, MBAcC, GDAS Janine CousinsBA(Hons), DipAc, CQSW,PGCE, CertEd Website: www.acupuncturetraining.co.uk Email: info@acupuncturetraining.co.uk Tel: 07999 816326 "Training For Practitioners By Practitioners." www.drinkanddrugs.net 20 October 2008 | […]
DDN1606
[…] can be guaranteed an enjoyable and stimulating week within a friendly, professional environment. For more information please visit our website on www.actiononaddiction.org.uk (Training and Education) or contact Carol Driver on 01985 843782 or Patsy Ford on 01985 843783 July 14-18 2008 - MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING July 21-25 2008 – COGNITIVE THERAPY & SUBSTANCE MISUSE July […]
The Big Conversation
[…] interactive online event, the College of Lived Experience Recovery Organisations (CLERO) identified challenges, opportunities – and a call to action that involves us all. DDN reports. Dame Carol Black’s review had given us an ‘amazing opportunity’ said the government’s recovery champion, Ed Day. We were at a pivotal moment, where ‘all the things we wanted’ […]
DDN November 2020
[…] work on ârecovery citiesâ based on the notion of developing community growth and wellbeing. Our early endeavours have seen a recent round table contribution to the Dame Carol Black review and have been highlighted by âThe way LEROs have been grassroots, each unique, and each owning their own approaches, has been community- driven and deeply […]
Constellations Online Festival of Harm Reduction
[…] put their own stories out on other platforms without needing to go via news outlets, however – ‘we can counterbalance the negative voices.’ Opportunity for Change The Carol Black report was a crucial opportunity for change when it came to the central role of peers – ‘it’s not about hearing that voice, it’s about enabling […]
A Second Chance
[…] inequality and injustice. Fortunately, we are at a point where we can make a difference and begin to turn this around. The government’s drug strategy and Dame Carol Black’s report both have criminal justice running right the way through them. We are well placed as an organisation to ensure that recovery and treatment play a […]
National news from the substance misuse field
[…] September 2015 Black books The government has reignited the debate over whether benefit entitlement should be linked to accepting treatment, with the publication of its review by Dame Carol Black. The review will look at the ‘legal, ethical and other implications’ of linking benefit entitlements to the take up of treatment, with a final report to […]
The apprentices shining at Humankind
National Apprenticeship Week 2023 takes place from Monday 6 February to Sunday 12 February. With both Dame Carol Black’s Independent Review and the national drug strategy, From Harm to Hope, singling out workforce development as a national priority and essential criteria for success, Humankind is taking the opportunity to highlight the achievements and aspirations of […]
DDN June 2021
[…] some of the words used in this issue. So what next? Paul Townsley believes we have a window of opportunity for ‘some radical steps forwards’ (page 8). Carol Black’s latest report is keenly anticipated and there’s an appetite to bring a public health approach to the criminal justice system as well as all corners of […]
Review of the year 2020
[…] much-needed drug and alcohol treatment, but rough sleepers would be facing more stark challenges as the months went on. FEBRUARY The long-awaited first part of Professor Dame Carol Black’s drugs review states that a prolonged shortage of treatment funding has led to a loss of skills, expertise and capacity, while a ‘much more violent’ illegal […]
DDN October 2021
[…] a highly motivating demonstration of co- production (p18), as well as an extremely useful breakdown of the costs of rehab – which the author fed into Dame Carol Black’s review – to help us to assess its value (p16). On p12 we invite you to join a conversation that we, along with many others throughout […]
A Sure Start
[…] policy is being developed. This is particularly so as the country adjusts to the changes imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and as the next phase of Dame Carol Black’s review of drug treatment services begins (news, page 5). The SURE Recovery app offers a new mechanism for supplying anonymised feedback on important topics relevant to […]
Government consults on widening access to naloxone
[…] from the national naloxone and overdose awareness campaign The eight-week consultation is in response to the ever-increasing rate of drug-related deaths and the second part of Dame Carol Black’s Independent review of drugs, the government states. Under the new proposals the list of people who would be eligible to carry and administer naloxone includes nurses, […]
Turning Point launches integrated substance use and mental health resource
[…] Bass as she launched Turning Point’s new Substance use mental health (SUMH) resource pack. There was a ‘fragmented system’ in this country that could change following Dame Carol Black’s review, she said. ‘In the meantime, we all need to go the extra mile and I hope this resource pack helps.’ Turning Point’s chair, Stephen Parker, […]
New guidance on peer volunteers
In Dame Carol Black’s influential Review of Drugs, she made a strong recommendation that treatment services should include people with lived experience of drug dependence working as recovery champions and recovery coaches. But she also warned that peer supporters should not be left to do the work of professionals without appropriate training, pay or support […]
Remodelling our alcohol support
[…] we provide to people accessing our services for alcohol related issues, by Stacey Smith, Director of Nursing, and Oliver Standing, Director of Communications & External Affairs. Dame Carol Black’s recent Independent Review of Drugs shone a welcome light on services for people struggling with their drug use. Happily, it led to a new Drug Strategy […]
Dark days review of the year 2015
[…] job insecurity and rapid commissioning cycles. The highly controversial notion of linking treatment to benefit entitlement hits the headlines again as the prime minister commissions Prof Dame Carol Black to conduct a review into sickness benefits, while Alcohol Concern chief executive Jackie Ballard backs the call for health warnings on alcohol labels. ‘Every other bottle […]
DDN July/August 2021
We need to be sensitive to factors for wellbeing We’re living with uncertainty – will things return to some sort of normality? When will the long-awaited Dame Carol Black report be published (p4, p8, p10)? One thing we can rely on is that issues relating to addiction are complex. Furthermore, we know that a public […]
DDN290107
[…] Available at www.dh.gov.uk News |Round-up www.drinkanddrugs.net 4| drinkanddrugsnews| 29 January 2007 An overall increase in the Pooled Drug Treatment has just been announced by Public Health Minister Caroline Flint. The government has pledged an increase from £375m to £388m for 2007/8, with an additional £10m to be distributed in capital funding. The extra funding […]
Doing it together
[…] staff provided this training throughout the conference and by the end of the day had issued more than 60 kits. Speakers on the day included Professor Dame Carol Black, independent advisor to the government, Dr Ed Day, national recovery champion, and Pete Burkinshaw, alcohol and drug treatment and recovery lead at the Office for Health […]
Government pledges housing support cash for areas most in need
[…] authority areas including Bristol, County Durham, Essex, Kent, Kingston upon Hull, Leeds, Liverpool and Middlesbrough. Addressing housing needs was a critical part of my review, said Dame Carol Black ‘Addressing the housing-related needs of people in treatment with drug and alcohol dependence was a critical part of my Independent review of drugs,’ said Dame Carol […]
DDN080908
[…] drug and alcohol treatment – and throws a challenge to a dynamic workforce to build on the positives Changing horizons DDN talks to new FDAP chief executive Carole Sharma Carole Sharma’s career in the substance misuse field spans a quarter of a century and includes both the health service and voluntary sector. A registered […]
Another record high for England and Wales drug deaths
[…] of PHE made it ‘feel like we have now come to a critical point. We are waiting to hear the outcome of the second stage of the Dame Carol Black review but the spending review has been shelved by government, so it may be some time before we see any change in terms of improved funding.’ […]
DDN260109
[…] RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT DIRECTORY – FREE INSIDEDIRECTORY – FREE INSIDE FEATURES 6 THE ROUTE TO REHAB– COVER STORY Talking to residents about their entry to rehab highlighted to Caroline Sutton and Brendan Georgeson that for some, the journey is needlessly difficult. 10 WE ARE FAMILY Families can be traumatised by drug use, but they can […]
January14
[…] policy areas that consistently draw opprobrium from scientists are far more complicated than just scientific evidence: energy, drugs and health, to name just three. Chris Tyler, Guarbian, 2 December Will I feel sorry for Nigella if these allegations – which she has denied – turn out to be true? Not really. Habitual and dangerous drug use can be sorted – if people want it to be. Carole Malone, Sunbay Mirror, b December Until we get a government that is more concerned about the health of the population than that of the drinks industry, and an NHS prepared to tackle alcohol-related harm with the same vigour which with it tackles […]
Jan14
[…] policy areas that consistently draw opprobrium from scientists are far more complicated than just scientific evidence: energy, drugs and health, to name just three. Chris Tyler, Guarbian, 2 December Will I feel sorry for Nigella if these allegations – which she has denied – turn out to be true? Not really. Habitual and dangerous drug use can be sorted – if people want it to be. Carole Malone, Sunbay Mirror, b December Until we get a government that is more concerned about the health of the population than that of the drinks industry, and an NHS prepared to tackle alcohol-related harm with the same vigour which with it tackles […]
DDN_October_2023
[…] they need. It said spending on youth addiction services in England had been cut by 41 per cent in real terms since 2013-14, a fact that Dame Carol Black acknowledged in her independent review. There has been a 55 per cent reduction of the numbers of young people in treatment since the peak in 2008-09. […]
DDN060605
[…] Progress2Work Wales Bradley Fellows of West Glamorgan Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse West Midlands Noreen Oliver of the Bur ton Addiction Centre Yorkshire and The Humber Carol Darbyshire of Drug Sense Regional team winners: East of England The Clockwise Centre, Essex East Midlands SPODA, Chesterfield London Health E1 Homeless Medical Centre, Tower Hamlets […]
Government rules out benefit sanctions for refusing treatment
People with drug and alcohol problems should not be made to undergo treatment in order to claim benefits, according to a long-awaited review by Dame Carol Black. The review, which was originally announced last year, was tasked with exploring the best ways to ‘support benefit claimants with addictions and potentially treatable conditions’ – including obesity […]
Round-up of National News, October
[…] health benefits to patients without some of the adverse side effects associated with earlier anti-viral treatments’, according to director of NICE’s centre for health technology evaluation, Professor Carole Longson. MENTOR MERGER Two leading drugs education charities are merging this month. Mentor UK, known for its work preventing alcohol and drug misuse among children and […]
Treatment workforce expands in wake of strategy funding
[…] about where investments are focused. No two areas are alike, and this includes setting local ambitions to increase treatment capacity, which would deliver our national ambitions.’ Dame Carol Black: This journey requires ‘considerable cultural and operational change’ ‘Although encouraged by the progress made so far, I would like us to be more agile in the […]
Harm reduction-based taskforce to look at student drug use
[…] taskforce will make recommendations ‘firmly based on harm reduction’ and have student ‘safety and health at its heart’, it says, and will be advised by Professor Dame Carol Black alongside ACMD chair Professor Owen Bowden-Jones and recovery champion Dr Ed Day. The taskforce will have student ‘safety and health at its heart’. Photo by Marko […]
DDNapril10
[…] practice â the impetus behind the charityâs five-point manifesto (DDN, 29 March, page 6). Workforce development updateâIt will be illegal to employ people who havenât been vetted,â Carole Sharma reminded delegates, in the session Workforce development â where are we now? As FDAP chief executive, Ms Sharma was well-placed to advise on the Independent […]
DDN041206
[…] users in the models being used? Worse still, given that in the latest NDTMS repor t, the contents of which were hailed as a success by both Caroline Flint and Paul Hayes, there is no reference to this deplorable state of affairs, doesanyone care? It may be that the models of treatment being used […]
Giving Voice
[…] of the sector’s largest providers. Its aim was to ensure that the sector had a voice, she said, with the group already having input into Professor Dame Carol Black’s benefits review and the new drug strategy. The sector as a whole had made very good progress in understanding how the service user voice could have […]
DDN2409
[…] is a closed Young Persons and Young Adult establishment. Closing date is 19th October 2007 at 5.00 pm. For further details and an application pack please contact Carole Rogers, HMP & YOI Brinsford, New Road, Featherstone, Wolverhampton WV10 7PY. Tel 01902 532486; fax 01902 532451; email carole.a.rogers@hmps.gsi.gov.uk. Details are also on the website – […]
Out of Harm’s Way
[…] as a treatment goal. Harm reduction interventions and meaningful support towards abstinence can of course sit within the same continuums of care, with many of the Dame Carol Black report’s recommendations reminding us of the need to revisit areas lost to disinvestment or policy changes. Early days Starting as a volunteer for Merseyside Drugs Council […]
Seamless Systems
[…] weeks – four times more likely to overdose on opiates, resulting in high drug related deaths in this group. This is something that was recognised by Dame Carol Black’s review, which stated the importance of ‘keeping prisoners engaged in treatment after release – improved engagement of people before they leave prison and better continuity of […]
Release’s take on the Government’s new Drug Strategy
[…] amount being spent on drug treatment and recovery support over the next three years. Investment in improving the quality and capacity of treatment, as recommended in Dame Carol Black’s independent review, is long overdue following the decade of spending cuts to treatment services. The renewed focus on recovery is both welcome yet ironic given that […]
DDN3007
[…] consultation Vernon Coaker introduces the Drug Strategy Consultation, launched this week, and calls on DDN readers to take par t in debate. 8 Widening the safety net Caroline Cockwell explain how the substance misuse team at Bristol Prison is using naltrexone at a far earlier stage intreatment to give inmates a better chance of […]
A Different Key
[…] engage. With drug markets now out of control, we had not created the environment where prisoners could go for treatment instead of using drugs in prison. Dame Carol Black’s report represented a phase of refreshment, he said – a chance to come back from ten years of neglect. There was no underestimating the ‘awful challenge’ […]
DDN260307
[…] levelled the playing field for the defence in closure orders – and indeed in other ASBO-type legal proceed- ings – in The Queen on the Application of Carol Cleary v Highbury Corner Magis- trates Court 1 All ER 270Lord Justice May stated that magistrates courts should treat anonymous hearsay evidence with great care as […]
DDN March 2024
[…] animated discussion about addressing all the other things going on in a person’s life – the things that profoundly influence health. We’re at a pivotal point. Prof Dame Carol Black tells us that we need to make our case for why a boost in funding has not had the desired impact on drug-related deaths. We have […]
DDN120207
[…] their staff and improve the experience of service users. £110 + Vat per delegate Qualifications, competence and government targets – making it work 26 February Central London Carole Sharma Former NTA work-force development lead This one-day workshop will assist those responsible for workforce development in creating local systems for the development of the substance […]
Filling the prescription
[…] your views on the cost of long-acting injectable buprenorphine? It is roughly £200 more annually than oral buprenorphine so this isn’t actually an issue, especially as Dame Carol Black’s report notes how much, when untreated, opioid users can cost the government per year. Confusion arises as commissioners sometimes forget to include the dispensing and other […]
Careers
[…] make significant positive changes to the lives of individuals, their families and communities. 9 New funding for the drug sector, and an increasing emphasis on gambling Dame Carol Black’s Independent review of drugs and the subsequent government drug strategy which launched in December 2021 came with significant investment – £530m for treatment and harm reduction, […]
Deaths in treatment up by almost 30 per cent
[…] including primary, secondary and acute care.’ However, the reasons behind the long-term erosion of the field’s capacity to support people in need were ‘plain to see in Dame Carol Black’s recent review’, it stated. ‘This recent rise in deaths makes only more important the announcement of the cross-government drug strategy in the coming weeks.’ Sad Silhouette
DDN220908
[…] a drug or alcohol problem. The winner will receive a cheque for £150 and runners up £100, and the successful entries will be read at Adfam’s annual carol concert in December by Adfam patron Sandi Toksvig and actors Zoe Wanamaker and Lesley Joseph. Entries can be a piece of writing (500 words or less), […]