Aberdeenshire Alcohol & Drugs Partnership (ADP)
About Us
The Aberdeenshire Alcohol and Drug Partnership (ADP) exists to draw stakeholders together to ensure a collective strategic response to problematic substance use and protecting the rights of the most vulnerable in Aberdeenshire, so that health inequalities are reduced, and life expectancy is improved. ADPs across Scotland aim to ensure a joined-up whole-system approach to alcohol and other drugs expressly integrated and owned within the operational activities of each public service organisation and community. The purpose of the Partnership is to collectively co-produce and coordinate service innovations and collaborations which ensure fewer people and families in Aberdeenshire suffer as the result of the problematic use of alcohol and other drugs, health inequalities are reduced, and life expectancy is improved.
Who We Are:
· Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership
· Aberdeenshire Council
· Police Scotland
· NHS Grampian Board
· Public Health
· Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
· Scottish Ambulance Service
· Scottish Prison Service
· Department for Work and Pensions – Job Centre Plus
· The Third Sector
· Independent Chair of Aberdeenshire Adult and Children’s Protection Committees
· Community members as representatives from the North, Central and South Forums and Lived and Living Experience Committee
· Community Justice Partnership
The ADP Committee have agreed that 3 strategic subgroups are required to enable discussion and allow a wider range of partners to be involved in specific discussions.
These sub-groups are: –
· Lived and Living Experience
· Resources and Governance
· Strategic Outcomes and Performance
What we do:
· Ensure a collective strategic response to problematic substance use in Aberdeenshire.
· Promote the human rights of people affected by alcohol or other drugs.
· Promote an anti-stigma approach to tackling problematic alcohol and substance use.
· Enable the active involvement of community members with a lived or living experience of alcohol or other drugs and representatives of the third sector in the work of the ADP with equal status with all other partners.
· Conducting needs assessments to gain understanding of the local alcohol and other drug system, the difference it is making to local communities and any gaps revealed so the ADP is data and local intelligence led.
· Publishing an evidence-based framework and delivery plan to achieve collectively agreed, measurable, priority outcomes drawn from national strategy.
· Allocate resources where necessary to ensure the delivery of priority actions designed to achieve agreed outcomes.
· Ensure clear governance arrangements are in place for shared, timely and effective decision making and financial allocation.
· Ensure a quality improvement approach to service planning and delivery.
· Ensure transparency of resources invested in preventing harm and reducing inequalities from alcohol and other drugs.
· Ensure clear monitoring and evaluation arrangements are in place and reports published for partners and communities to show progress on the delivery plan and an effective use of funds.
· Account to Scottish Government for ADP resources used to achieve its outcomes.
Vision:
An Aberdeenshire which is healthy and resilient where fewer people and families experience harm from drugs and alcohol.
Mission:
To work together across services and communities to prevent harm, learn and improve how we develop and deliver services that put people at the centre, and to ensure that those affected by drugs and alcohol are treated with dignity, compassion and respect
Aims/Priorities:
· Fewer people develop problem drug and alcohol use
· Harm from drug and alcohol use is significantly reduced
· People access quality trauma informed services, support and treatment that is continuously improved, and capacity built to meet people’s needs.
· Quality of life is improved for people experiencing multiple disadvantages
· Families, children and communities affected by problem alcohol & drug use are supported, safe, healthy and included
Leadership
Aberdeenshire ADP Chair: Avril Nicol, Head of Service – Communities, Wellbeing & Partnerships, Aberdeenshire Council
Aberdeenshire ADP Vice-Chair: John Bolland, Lived Experience
Both ADP Chair and Vice Chair have reached the end of their term and these roles are currently being recruited.
The ADP Committee is the decision-making vehicle for the ADP partnership and is led by the ADP Chair. The committee meet quarterly, and every meeting of the ADP Committee will be open to the public to attend and observe but not to take part.
No person or body shall be permitted, without the permission of the ADP Committee, to tape record, photograph, video, film or use any other form of electronic, digital, or computerised sound or visual recording system during any Meeting.
However, the public must be excluded from a Meeting when an item of business is being considered if it is likely, because of the business itself or what might be said at the Meeting, that confidential information (as meant by the relevant law) would be given to members of the public. Papers which contain confidential information will not be available to the public.
The ADP Committee may decide to exclude the public when it is considering an item of business if it is likely, because of the business itself or what might be said at the Meeting, that exempt information would be given to members of the public. Exempt papers will not be available for the public nor published online. The minute of the meeting will record the reason for any decision by the ADP Committee to exclude the public from a meeting.
If you are a member of the public and want to attend an ADP Committee meeting then contact the ADP Project Manager by email Claire.johnstone@Aberdeenshire.gov.uk
Information for Partners
- How to access Aberdeenshire Alcohol and Drug Services
- ALISS Service Directory
- ALISS is a national digital programme enabling people and professionals to find and share information on health and wellbeing resources, services, groups, and support in their local communities and online.
- ADP Committee Papers