CDAAL Survey2012

Survey Breadth of work within voluntary drug

and alcohol sector The added value brought by the sector Looking ahead – sustainability Commissioning – views and

preparedness

Breadth of work in the sector For many organisations there is an

holistic approach with many clients experiencing a range of issues that are supported within one service, including substance users, carers, children, familes

The model of integrated working has been standard in the voluntary sector for many years

Drugs Alcohol TobaccoSexual Health

Mental health

Blood Borne Viruses

Other (please specify)

18 19 5 3 4 3

2Families/carers

Any addictive behavior

Breadth of work in the sector Although

individual work is the core of many services, there is a wide range of activity which represents the holistic approach the sector does well

1:1 key work / support work 15

Counselling 8

Other therapies 4

Group work 9

Social activities 6

Employability support/activity 5

Education/learning opportunities 7

Housing support 3

Financial/benefits advice 4

Peer support 8Support for self help/recovery community development 11

Carer support 3

Family support 7Other (please specify)

Parenting work

Individual therapeutic work with children

Vocational opportunities

SMART in Community

HMP Edinburgh counselling

HMP recovery work

Criminal Justice work

The added value - resources

10% of paid staff are entirely funded from non-statutory sources

56% of paid staff are funded from a blend of statutory and non-statutory sources

33% of paid staff are entirely funded by statutory sources

The added value - volunteers There are at least 151 volunteers involved

in the voluntary drug and alcohol sector These volunteers contribute over 500

hours of capacity each week There are over 60 trained peer

supporters involved in helping people Only one organisation achieves this with

statutory funding alone – most of this is achieved through non-statutory funding.

Looking ahead - sustainability Stable60% have diverse funding sources33% have long term grants in place26% have more than 3 months reserves

Vulnerable20% have only one or two funding sources60% have only short term grants in place20% have less than 3 months reserves

Looking ahead-sustainability All funding reduction scenarios from 5-50%

will result in reduction in quality of service for up to 69% of services

All funding reduction scenarios from 5-50% will result in reduction in quantity of service for up to 84% of services

A funding reduction of 5% would lead to redundancy in 29% of services and reduction of 50% would lead to redundancy in 86% of services

Looking ahead-sustainability In all cases any amount of statutory funding

reduction will have a negative impact on other funding agreements

For 15% of organisations a 10% reduction in statutory funding will lead to loss of other grants; a 20% reduction would lead to other grant loss for 30% of organisations; a 50% reduction would lead to other grant loss for 43% of organisations

42% of organisations would close if they faced a 50% reduction in statutory funding

66% of organisations would close if they faced a 100% loss in statutory funding

Looking ahead-sustainability Complex impact

>Loss of rent for premises

>Some organisations have contracts for different parts of service alongside different timescales. Often tendering for 3 years for one part when other parts have only 1 year funding making organisations fragile.

Commissioning Poor consultation process and bad practice in terms of

making consultation responses public, as well as making any changes made as a result of the consultation explicit

Don't feel that it was robust enough and felt that it was somewhat directed!

I did take part in the consultation and completed an electronic consultation document which was submitted to the EADP. However I have not yet received feedback although it was suggested that there would be feedback. The document seemed to lean towards securing particular answers to questions.

A paper exercise undertaken by the EADP. No commitment to a level playing field with the statutory sector.

Different scenarios in different parts of the Lothians