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CDAAL
Survey
2012
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
18
Sexual
Health
Tobacco
19
5
Blood
Borne
Viruses
Mental
health
3
4
Other (please
specify)
3
2
Families/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
Support for self help/recovery
community development
8
Carer support
3
Family support
Other (please specify)
7
Parenting work
Individual therapeutic work with children
Vocational opportunities
SMART in Community
HMP Edinburgh counselling
HMP recovery work
Criminal Justice work
11
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
 Stable
 Vulnerable
60% have diverse
funding sources
33% have long term
grants in place
26% have more than
3 months reserves
20% have only one or
two funding sources
60% have only short
term grants in place
20% 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
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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