Purpose

This investment will further increase the
capacity and quality of the existing Aspire service, enhance the
professional workforce, improve integration of services, improve
access to accommodation alongside treatment, improve employment
support, increase referrals into treatment in the criminal justice
system and keep prisoners engaged in treatment after release.
It will enhance the services offered, add flexibility, decrease
waiting times and enable more people to benefit from the Aspire
service.
Public Health are seeking permission to go ahead the spend for the
financial year 2024/25.

Content

This is the third year of additional monies
received as part of the 10 year National Drug Strategy entitled
‘From Harm to Hope’. The Supplemental Substance Misuse
Treatment and Recovery
Grant (SSMTRG) from the Office of Health Improvement and
Disparities (OHID) has been deployed to improve the capacity and
quality of substance misuse services in line with the new
national strategy.