SOCIAL CARE

Former social care chief sentenced for drug offences

By Dan Peters | 01 February 2024

An ex-deputy director of social care at Bradford MDC has been sentenced after pleading guilty to offering to supply and possessing a class A drug.

HEALTH

Five key principles for drug harm reduction in Sandwell

By Dr Lisa McNally | 06 September 2022

Sandwell MBC is reversing the numbers of drug-related deaths through cost-effective investment, r...

CRIME

Bringing drug debt into the spotlight

By Daniel Phelps | 15 March 2022

To coincide with National Child Exploitation Awareness Day, Waltham Forest LBC is releasing a pow...

CRIME

The partnership making Redbridge safer

By Cllr Jas Athwal | 08 March 2022

Cllr Jas Athwal highlights the key findings of an independent Community Crime Commission investig...

HOMELESSNESS

A whole-system approach to tackle the blight of drug abuse

By Eddie Hughes | 07 December 2021

Minister for Rough Sleeping and Housing Eddie Hughes reflects on the Prime Minister’s announcemen...

HOMELESSNESS

Joined-up action to aid street-based lives

By Marianne Huison | 14 September 2021

Calderdale’s trauma-based response to Burnt Bridges? is an example of why focusing on place-based...

CHILDREN'S SERVICES

'Off-grid' children at risk from county lines

By Ann McGauran | 09 August 2021

Former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield has warned exclusions are likely to rise next month...

MJ AWARDS

Caring for complex issues

By Ann McGauran | 02 March 2021

A Stockport MBC project working with adults with complex drug and alcohol issues won the council ...

HOMELESSNESS

Rough sleepers to get extra support for drug and alcohol dependency

By Laura Sharman | 14 December 2020

Extra funding will be given to 43 areas across England to help rough sleepers recover from drug a...

HEALTH

Casting light on a dark problem

By Ann McGauran | 25 November 2020

An innovative integrated approach to tackling drug-related harm in Blackpool is achieving promisi...

WHITEHALL

Patel pledges £20m to 'roll up' County Lines

By Paul Marinko | 02 October 2019

The home secretary’s announcement of a £20m package to tackle County Lines drugs gangs has receiv...

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