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Sponsored by: KCA, Turning Point, EISS, Kent Drug Action Team and Britannia Pharmaceuticals ltd

Special Offer:30% off when you book two or more places
Date: 7 th and 8 th July 2005
Venue: The Ashford International Hotel, Ashford, Kent

About the conference

The development of the Drug Interventions Programme (DIP), the merging of probation and prisons into the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and new teams being created will all put increasing pressure on the multi-agency approach to drug-related offences within the context of implementation of the 2003 Criminal Justice Act.

This groundbreaking national conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on the implications of the changes on offer and provide practical solutions to innovation.

In particular a major theme will be to consider how such practices are developed in other European countries and what we might take from their expertise.

Conference aims

• To share experiences of successful practice in multi-agency work with drug- related offenders on arrest, in the community, in prison and on completion of sentences.


• To inform the development of DIP programmes of best practice examples throughout the UK, and provide a forum of discussion on development and other approaches to tackling drug-related offending.


• To consider effective enforcement practice in the UK and mainland Europe.


• To address treatment issues and diversity.

Key themes

• Developments in national policy on drug-related offending.
• Lessons emerging from the Drug Intervention Programme.
• Lessons from other countries on dealing with drug-related offenders (demand and harm reduction).
• Engaging drug-related offenders in treatment (at arrest, sentence and in prison).
• Assuring continuity of treatment (case management and resettlement).

Who should attend?

• Criminal Justice Intervention Programme Teams
• Drug action teams
• Prison workers and managers
• Probation officers
• Drug agencies
• Police
• Social workers
• Youth offending teams
• Community safety officers
• Service providers
• Drug treatment providers
• Housing agencies
• Research/policy officers

Speakers include:

• Peter Gilroy OBE Strategic Director of Social Services, Kent County Council
• Chief Constable Michael Fuller, Kent Police
• Caroline Flint MP Home Office Minister
• Lord Victor Adebowale CBE Chief Executive, Turning Point
• Paul Hayes Chief Executive, NTA
• Lord Justice Woolf Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
• Colin Moses National Chairman, Prison Officers Association
• Mike Trace Chief Executive, RaPT

When you book two or more places at this event, you will receive a 30% discount.       

Two-day rate with one night accommodation £395 plus VAT
Two-day rate without accommodation £345 plus VAT
One-day rate without accommodation £255 plus VAT

<<feint_line.gif>> To ensure your places at the conference, please call us on 0870 161 3505 or visit www.pavpub.com

Rowdy Yates
Senior Research Fellow
Scottish Addiction Studies
Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology Section
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling

W: http://www.dass.stir.ac.uk/sections/scot-ad/

T: +44(0)1786 - 467737

M: 07960 - 403392

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