Drug and Alcohol Action Team
Worcestershire Drug and Alcohol Action Team
(DAAT) is a multi-agency partnership of Chief Officers or
their representatives from a range of agencies tasked with
addressing the misuse of drugs and alcohol and implementing the
national strategies associated with this work.
These include:
- The 10-year National Drugs Strategy – Drugs: protecting
families and communities;
- The Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy – Safe. Sensible. Social.
The next steps in the National Alcohol Strategy.
Worcestershire DAAT as a partnership has a strategic role with
regards to strategy, planning, commissioning and performance
managing the services and activities carried out on its behalf in
order to achieve its agreed mission statement. This is
to:
'Reduce the harm that drugs and alcohol cause to
individuals, families and communities within
Worcestershire'
The partners comprising Worcestershire DAAT include the
following:
- Community Safety Partnership representatives
- Worcestershire County Council (Adult and Community Services,
Children's Services)
- District Council (Community Safety, Housing)
- Worcestershire Primary Care Trust
- West Mercia Constabulary
- West Midlands Ambulance NHS Trust
- Worcestershire and Herefordshire Youth Offending Services
- Herefordshire and Worcestershire ConneXions
- HM Prison Service
- West Mercia Probation Trust
- Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
The Worcestershire Drug and Alcohol Action Team is based at
County Hall
Contact them on Tel. 01905 766735 or Fax 01905 766930
email: smatadmin@worcestershire.gov.uk
