Purpose

Lancashire Drug and Alcohol Partnership has
been in existence for eighteen months and in that time has
developed and sustained some positive changes for the people of
Lancashire. This report sets out progress to date and gives an
outline of plans for 2024/25.
The national 10-year Strategy 'From Harm to Hope' 2021 requires
each upper tier authority to develop and sustain a Combatting Drugs
Partnership with membership made up of key public and voluntary
services in the county including, health, social support, public
health, housing authorities, the Police and Crime Commissioner,
prisons, and probation. Partnerships must link with other strategic
boards such as the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care
Board, reducing reoffending boards, and community safety
partnerships. In Lancashire we chose to broaden the Partnership's
remit to include alcohol along with illicit drugs due to the
wide-ranging harms associated with it.