Issue - meetings

Andrew Lawrence (Service Manager – Children and Public Health Commissioning, LB Enfield) and Dudu Sher-Arami (Director of Public Health and Chair of CDAP).

Report and slides attached.

RECEIVED the report and slide presentation, introduced by Dudu Sher-Arami, Director of Public Health and DS Marco Bardetti, Metropolitan Police Service, Chair and Deputy Chair of Enfield Combating Drug and Alcohol Partnership (CDAP).

NOTED

1. CDAP had recently come into existence and was also accountable to the Health and Wellbeing Board.

2.  The government 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives ‘From Harm to Hope’ was published in April 2022, and set out requirements for each Local Authority, with agreed funding.

3.  This had led to the set up of CDAP multi-agency group, including members with lived experience. There would also be sub groups covering clinical governance and treatment and care. CDAP would deliver a plan to address drug and alcohol related health and crime improvements for the Enfield community, including increasing drug and alcohol treatment service as well as prevention. Updates on progress would be brought to the Board.

ACTION:  Dudu Sher-Arami

IN RESPONSE

4.  It was confirmed that there was quite prescriptive detail regarding how the funding was spent and monitoring of progress to targets.

5.  In response to queries in respect of engagement, it was confirmed that the detailed plan would be shared with the Board in due course, and there would be work to increase the numbers accessing services and to raise awareness of how to get support. The Chair asked officers to consider work with partners on referrals. Recognition should also be given to the preparatory work by partner organisations with people who were going to be referred so they could usefully accept and access the services. DS Bardetti advised that the custody suite was one of the referral pathways, and from neighbourhood policing. The Chair also suggested links to work in respect of prostitution and drug issues in the Joyce and Snells estate area. It was also confirmed that mental health services were part of the partnership board.