Children & Young People Now provide some space to look at the drug strategy:
But while few question the ambition and direction of Drugs: Protecting families and communities, there are concerns about turning these ideas into real progress.Martin Barnes, chief executive of the charity DrugScope, has yet to be convinced. “In terms of young people and families there’s a lot of good stuff in the strategy, but as always the issue is delivery,” he says.
Barnes points to two gaps in the strategy. First, both it and the action plan for the next three years are short on specific details about how plans will work in practice. For example, the strategy proposes better communication between child and adult services in local authorities but contains no information about how this will happen.
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