Information for  

• The Chairs of the Drug Partnerships
• The Chairs of the Joint Commissioning Groups
• Joint Commissioning Managers
• DAT Managers

Following the publication of the Drug Strategy, we are now able to give an outline of the national funding streams in support of community drug treatment in England.

The Drug Strategy commits the government to removing unnecessary bureaucratic barriers to the effective local deployment of resources. To facilitate this, most funding for drug treatment in the community and prison will, from April 2011, become the responsibility of the Department of Health (DH).

This provides opportunities for local areas to integrate and align their spending on both offenders and non-offenders in the community, and better bridge the gap between prison and community treatment with one pot of money with one purpose.

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