England hospital admissions for addiction soar as treatment budgets are reduced

    Jonathan Ashworth (Shadow health secretary) UK. The Guardian has reported that more than half of the local authorities in England have cut their budgets for alcohol and drug treatment, even though admissions to hospital for problems related to addiction are soaring, say MPs. Liam Byrne, the chair of the cross-party parliamentary group for …

DRIVE Project domestic abuse intervention year two results published

The Drive Project launched in April 2016 and is being piloted in three areas across England and Wales from 2016-2019. It is being developed and run as part of a partnership between Respect, SafeLives, and Social Finance in collaboration with the PCCs, local authorities, and service providers, and delivered by DVIP (division of Richmond Fellowship), …