1. 1 Alcohol and Housing 17 th March 2009 – Pride Park Derby Mike Murray Head of Service – Drugs Strategy, Alcohol Strategy, Priority Prolific Offending and Housing Community Safety Partnership/NHS Derby City

2. 2 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

3. 3 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

4. 4 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”

5. 5 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

6. 6 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

7. 7 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)

8. 8 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

9. 9 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

10. 10 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!

11. 11 Alcohol Treatment Proposal Consultation Launched on the 9 th March and running until the 8 th 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.uknicola.snell@derby.gov.uk

12. 12 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.