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.