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- Advisory Group recommendations for homelessness and substance use in Scotland
10 February 2010
THE Scottish Government’s Advisory Group on Homelessness and Substance Misuse yesterday published its recommendations for improving housing service provision for people affected by homelessness and drug and alcohol problems.
Its says that mainstream services supporting people affected by homelessness or substance misuse routinely consider the impact of substance misuse and homelessness on the ways in which they provide services.
The Group makes 12 recommendations for actions covering the two key themes of strategic and organisational responses, and service design and delivery.
It calls for:
- A joint strategic response at national level to be developed
- A joint strategic response at a local level to be developed (responsibility sitting with Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs)
- Recognition of the importance of investing to save over the long term
- A joint operational response at local level to be developed
- More flexible approaches in rural and island areas
- Service development and commissioning to be based on evidence of good practice
- An individual’s priorities to be the starting point for the design and delivery of services and support
- Ongoing evaluation of services in this field to be managed through the ADP planning and monitoring processes
- Targeted service user participation and involvement to be supported
- Training across homelessness, housing, alcohol and drug fields to be supported in statutory and commissioned services
- The stigmatisation of these populations to be addressed at a local and national level.
The Advisory Group was established in November 2005. The new recommendations follow
an international review of evidence for effective services in substance misuse and homelessness commissioned by the Advisory Group and produced in 2008.
You can download the Advisory Group recommendations in this briefing paper prepared by Scottish Drugs Forum.
Effective Services for Substance Misuse and Homelessness in Scotland: The recommendations of the Advisory Group on Homelessness and Substance Misuse (PDF 339kb).
conference
Housing, Homelessness and Substance Misuse: developing effective responses – 8 February 2010, Clydebank
On behalf of the Advisory Group, Scottish Drugs Forum organised an event, Housing, Homelessness and Substance Misuse: developing effective responses, on 8 February, which examined the Advisory Group’s recommendations.
It also explored Dutch, Danish and Scottish models for innovative housing responses for people with substance use problems.
You can download the presentations from the 8 February event on the
Presentations section of our website.
You can also see the
conference programme here.