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Drug and Alcohol Early Intervention
in Nottingham City Schools
An Integrated Partnership Model for Impacting on
Drugs and Alcohol Issues Anna Power
Drug and Alcohol Education Specialist Early Intervention Team Nottingham City Council [email protected] 0115 8764797
The DrugAware Award Programme
• National Drugs Strategy • Local and National Alcohol Strategy • Hidden Harm • DfE Drug / ACPO (DfES) Advice for Schools • NICE • Evidence review • OFSTED • PSHE Association • D-Vibe data • JSNA • CYPP
Context
• Nottingham City Council Early Intervention Team • Nottingham Crime and Drugs Partnership • Compass Young People’s Alcohol & Drug Service • Explore Family • Public Health • NHS / City Care
The partnership
*based on improvements against the outcomes for drug education pre and post test in D-Vibe Survey
The DrugAware Integrated Multi Component Model
Consultancy – Standard-based Quality Standard
• Drug policy • Baseline data collection • Curriculum planning and resources • Target education planning and resources • Early intervention practice • Training • Teaching and learning • Consultation and participation • Evaluative data collection • Health improvement focus / social marketing
Mainstream and Curriculum Support
*based on improvements against the outcomes for drug education pre and post test in D-Vibe Survey
Early Identification
Education Link Worker Service – Management implementation support – Link to the DrugAware Standard context – Link to policy – Retaining inclusion – Advice and support re professional concerns – Liaison between school and service
– Support and intervention for young people at risk – Transition support – Signposting training for early identification – Advising on materials and methods for staff to deliver supporting
sessions for vulnerable YP / those at risk
Early Intervention
*based on improvements against the outcomes for drug education pre and post test in D-Vibe Survey
Data Driven Focus
• 70 DrugAware schools so far (almost 73% of all schools)
• This equates to 27,885 Children and Young People
• Over 800 parents involved, received information sessions or training online or from the Regents House Parent/Family Support Worker
• Over 500 Staff trained around their understanding and teaching practice for drug issues
• Over 80 school staff trained to conduct needs assessments with vulnerable pupils – including 15 secondary / Learning Centres using the NGage toolkit
DrugAware in Nottingham City…
Mainstream Secondary School
46% increase in young people rating drug education as ‘good enough’ 98% staff trained report they are “more confident” to deliver early intervention
Significant increases in:
confidence to refuse substances, knowledge on the risks of substances recognition of skills to lower the risks, knowledge of services faith in parents as knowledgeable educators
Following focused programmes, reductions in:
Self-reported binge drinking / drunkenness cannabis use frequency perilous attitudes key misinformation
Data snapshot
*based on improvements against the outcomes for drug education pre and post test in D-Vibe Survey
• Young people assessed (NGage Assessment Toolkit) risen from 5% to 98%
• Referrals to Compass have risen 400% • Referrals exceed incidents in all DrugAware Schools • Knowledge of drug services risen from 3% to 38% • Skills and confidence to refuse drugs/alcohol (illustration of safety
skills) risen from 45% to 75%
• Knowledge of recovery position (illustration of safety skills) risen from 11% to 58%
• Prevalence Cannabis use fallen from 41% to 37% by end Y9* • Comparison with group of early Y10 in KS4 PRU who have not yet
had DrugAware implemented showed cannabis 57% * this is a time when cannabis use generally increases dramatically from 12-14 to approx 50%
Vulnerable Young People
66% show sustained level of practice
after 2 years with remainder keen to reaccredit and update
Sustainability
*based on improvements against the outcomes for drug education pre and post test in D-Vibe Survey
Data snapshot
Cost Benefit?
Cost to society of 1 young drug user £44,231 ref Transform Policy unit)
121 referrals 2012/13
4% re-entered treatment (compared to 47% in YOT)
If only 10% of these were to continue, without intervention, to escalated drug use = 12
£530,772
Implementation Support / Tools
It was a comprehensive service that delivered what we needed on a practical level.. There was an understanding about what actually happens in school and the support that teachers need to deliver a worthwhile experience – Secondary Academy
We think that DrugAware has empowered our students and has given strategies to recognise risky situations and learn how to deal with them. Secondary School
The staff from the DrugAware team were very well received by the school community. It was remarked how friendly, knowledgeable and helpful they were. Primary School
It was made very do-able by the DrugAware team! Primary School
It was great how everyone got involved across the whole school
Students who would have not made it through exams, once we used the EI process did – it was a transformation! KS4 Learning Centre
What teachers say…(nice but not an ‘evaluation’)
For more information
Anna Power, DrugAware Programme Lead Nottingham City Council Early Intervention Team Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham NG2 3NG telephone: 0115 8764797 email: [email protected] web: www.thedrugawareaward.co.uk Shop: www.earlyinterventionresources.co.uk