Decision details

A five-year combined drug and alcohol strategy for 2017-22 has been jointly produced by Kent Police and KCC Public Health on behalf of the Kent Drug and Alcohol Partnership (KDAP).

This strategy incorporates the current Police drug and alcohol strategy and the KCC led Kent alcohol strategy. This new Kent Drug and Alcohol Strategy has been developed on behalf of all KDAP partners. The decision to combine a strategy for both drugs and alcohol was taken in order to highlight the new complexities in both illegal and legal drug and alcohol use in Kent.

The five strategic themes in the new strategy are resilience, identification, early help & harm reduction, recovery and supply.  The strategy went out for public consultation which was completed at the end of February 2017.  This final version has now been completed and has taken into account comments from the consultation.

The strategy has been endorsed by the KDAP Board. The KDAP Board will receive a draft delivery plan in June/July 2017. Subject to endorsement by the Health Reform and Public Health Cabinet Committee and sign off from the Cabinet Member for Strategic Commissioning and Public Health, the new strategy and its delivery plan will be implemented from August 2017.

As Cabinet Member for Strategic Commissioning & Public Health I approve the Kent Drug and Alcohol Strategy for 2017-2022.