Reports and Research

Implementation of the National Drugs Strategy is based on sound research, both local and national.

Local Research

The Norfolk DAAT is responsible for commissioning research to establish local service needs.

Please click on the links, below to access copies of these needs assessments:

Adult Needs Assessment 2007 by Dr Richard Holland, Ms Vivienne Maskrey, Dr Joanne Broadbent, Dr Caitlin Notley, Irene Cameron, Dr Julian Flowers,
Prof. Ian Harvey. University of East Anglia

The Harm Done By Alcohol in Norfolk 2007 by Julian Flowers, Philip Mills and Irene Cameron. Eastern Region Public Health Observatory

Norfolk Young People's Needs Assessment 2007 by Victoria Scaife & Margaret O'Brien. University of East Anglia, School of Psychosocial Studies.

Children of Parental Substance Misusers and Substance Misusers who are Parents:
Study of Need and Response for Norfolk by Sarah Boon and Lorna Templeton. University of Bath

A Crack-Cocaine Needs Assessment for Norfolk

For more information on these locally commissioned pieces of work contact Veronica Nelhams at veronica.nelhams@norfolk.gov.uk

Attached is the Norfolk DAAT commissioned report for the Drugs Invervention Programme on Education, Training and Employment which was finalised in August 2008.

National Guidance

The government, under the ten year plan 'Tackling Drugs Together', has produced many strategy and research documents for Drug Action Teams.
Copies of the two main guidance documents, 'Updated Drug Strategy 2002' and 'The substance of young needs' can be found on the Tackling Drugs website, www.drugs.gov.uk.
This website also contains home office publications and useful links to other drugs and alcohol websites.

The Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy For England is now available on the Alcohol Concern website, www.alcoholconcern.org.uk

An analysis of the provision of services for adult female offenders with substance misuse problems

This research was funded by the County Strategic Group for Crime Reduction and commissioned by the Norfolk Drug and Alcohol Partnership.  It was completed by a research team from Anglia Ruskin University.

The research was commissioned to gain a better understanding of the services that are made available to female offenders in Norfolk who are engaged in the Criminal Justice System.  The Corston Report (2007) raised a number of concerns about how the complex needs of female offenders were not being met.  The research commissioned by NDAP was an attempt to gain a better understanding of the scale and extent of the issue in Norfolk.

A copy of the report this Female Offender Research and a copy of a related presentation is attached through the links.