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Alcohol and Housing17th March 2009 – Pride Park Derby

Mike MurrayHead of Service – Drugs Strategy, Alcohol Strategy, Priority Prolific Offending and HousingCommunity Safety Partnership/NHS Derby City

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Links between Alcohol and Housing

Explore the ways alcohol impacts upon housing Discuss targets and monitoring Outline the Derby position and our work There is a basic premise to this presentation… Housing is one of the basic human needs Poor quality, insecure or lack of housing

undermines all efforts to improve lives. Offering treatment and tackling alcohol related

anti-social behaviour are part of a joint approach

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Reports from the front line

Case study examples of the impact of alcohol upon the individual and the community

Health Anti-social behaviour And violence

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What we are told we have to do

LAA Targets (and all of the rest of them) Improve health Reduce hospital admissions Reduce re-offending Reduce anti-social behaviour Reduce violent crime To do these things we need to change the

culture of alcohol use from binge and excessive use to one of “sensible drinking”

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Monitoring

LAA targets monitoring NATMS/ local service contract data Local Needs Assessment LAPE Local Housing Reviews Supporting People data Rough sleeper counts Client audits and service user surveys

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Derby City Data

NI 39 league table Estimated number of people drinking to

hazardous and harmful levels – 30 – 35,000 Those with more urgent treatment dependency

needs 6,000 Number treated 2007/08 (all treatment needs)

less than 400. Estimated number of dependent drug users –

2,000 Number drug users in treatment 1,660

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What we are doing - Strategically

Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategic Plan and Action Plan

Strong links to other strategies and plans to tackle violence, health and housing

Priority for PCT (health) and CSP (violent crime)

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Work in Progress

Training GPs, Housing Workers, Probation etc… Alcohol GP Pilot Clinical Director for Substance Misuse Homelessness GP and Nurses (mental health) Step-Up Wet Unit ( Award winning current/planned

expansion) Street Drinkers Group Milestone House Social marketing

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Developing Treatment - Aims

Increase treatment capacity Improve accessibility Increase proportion in brief interventions Create system throughput Decrease waiting times Widen range of services Engage service users in development Improve confidence in delivery and effectiveness

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Challenges

Targets that don’t necessarily help Fragmentation between themes of community safety

and health Lack of equity in funding Victorian values and prejudice Educating the professionals, the public and the

media Do as I say and not as I do! Cultural change takes a lifetime to achieve!

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Alcohol Treatment Proposal Consultation

Launched on the 9th March and running until the 8th June

Chance to influence the shape of alcohol treatment in Derby City

Copies available from www.saferderby.org.uk www.derbycitypct.nhs.uk Or by emailing nicola.snell@derby.gov.uk

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www.alcohollearningcentre.org.uk

Contact me on - michael.murray@derby.gov.uk

Thanks to the organisers

Thanks to you for coming

And thanks for listening.