UK Strategies to Tackle Drugs and Crime. In July 2021 the Home Office published the Beating Crime Plan ‘Fewer victims, peaceful neighbourhoods, safe country’. The plan sets out the strategic approach to: cutting homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime; exposing and ending hidden xxxxx; and building capability and capacity to deal with fraud and online crime. It complements other existing strategies, and work on hidden xxxxx, as well as work that the Government has been doing on domestic abuse and national cyber security strategies. Nationally the Government has invested in a number of programmes and funding schemes to help strengthen the ability to tackle these issues, including: Safer Streets Fund, Violence Reduction Units, Supporting Families Fund, and tackling drugs supply and county lines. Some of these funding streams and programmes are being utilised in Kent. In December 2021 the Government published ‘From Harm to Hope’ a 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives by reducing the supply and demand for drugs and delivering a high-quality treatment and recovery system. The plan is the first Drugs Strategy which committed the whole Government along with public services to work together and share responsibility for creating a safer, healthier and more productive society. The main aims are to break drug supply chains; deliver a world-class treatment and recovery system; and reduce the demand for drugs through changing attitudes in society. Since the publication of the national plan, a significant amount of work has been undertaken in Kent to implement the requirements including the development of the Kent Drug and Alcohol Strategy which takes a whole system approach, improving the range of partners signed up to the Kent Alliance for Substance Misuse and making better links to NHS. The strategy aims to prioritise the causes and consequences of drug and alcohol harm, implement a range of harm reduction strategies and ensure there are quality services for very high-risk families, vulnerable people and communities.
UK Strategies to Tackle Drugs and Crime. In July 2021 the Home Office published the Beating Crime Plan ‘Fewer victims, peaceful neighbourhoods, safe country’. The plan sets out the strategic approach to: cutting homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime; exposing and ending hidden xxxxx; and building capability and capacity to deal with fraud and online crime. It complements other existing strategies, and sits alongside other work on hidden xxxxx, as well as work that the Government is planning for later this year when the domestic abuse and national cyber security strategies are due to be published. Governance and accountability for the strategy will be supported by monitoring of the National Crime and Policing Measures. Nationally the Government is investing in a number of programmes and funding schemes to help strengthen the ability to tackle these issues, including: Safer Streets Fund, Violence Reduction Units, Supporting Families Fund, and tackling drugs supply and county lines. Some of these funding streams and programmes are already being utilised in Kent. In December 2021 the Government published ‘From Harm to Hope’ a 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives by reducing the supply and demand for drugs and delivering a high-quality treatment and recovery system. The plan is the first Drugs Strategy which commits the whole Government along with public services to work together and share responsibility for creating a safer, healthier and more productive society. The main aims are to break drug supply chains; deliver a world-class treatment and recovery system; and reduce the demand for drugs through changing attitudes in society.
UK Strategies to Tackle Drugs and Crime. In July 2021 the Home Office published the Beating Crime Plan ‘Fewer victims, peaceful neighbourhoods, safe country’. The plan sets out the strategic approach to: cutting homicide, serious violence and neighbourhood crime; exposing and ending hidden xxxxx; and building capability and capacity to deal with fraud and online crime. It complements other existing strategies, and sits alongside other work on hidden xxxxx, as well as work that the Government is planning for later this year when the domestic abuse and national cyber security strategies are due to be published. Nationally the Government is investing in a number of programmes and funding schemes to help strengthen the ability to tackle these issues, including: Safer Streets Fund, Violence Reduction Units, Supporting Families Fund, and tackling drugs supply and county lines. Some of these funding streams and programmes are already being utilised in Kent. - In December 2021 the Government published ‘From Harm to Hope’ a 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives by reducing the supply and demand for drugs and delivering a high-quality treatment and recovery system. The plan is the first Drugs Strategy which commits the whole Government along with public services to work together and share responsibility for creating a safer, healthier and more productive society. The main aims are to break drug supply chains; deliver a world-class treatment and recovery system; and reduce the demand for drugs through changing attitudes in society.
