Drug Interventions Programme
Increasing Client Engagement
The Drug Interventions Programme (DIP) has achieved significant progress in increasing the numbers of drug using offenders entering treatment.
DIP is committed to increasing engagement, improving retention in appropriate treatment and support, continuing to drive up performance throughout the programme, and ensuring value for money. DIP can only attain these objectives through effective partnership working at a national, regional and local level.
The DIP Regional Operational Group (DIPROG), consisting of partnership representatives, drives this work forward and builds upon the work of the DIP Attrition, Breach and Enforcement Working Group and the DIP Increasing Client Engagement Working Group. The merging of these agendas is a result of both external and internal consultation within DIP which identified that the alignment of the two groups, as well as the synergising of their work plans, as the most appropriate next step to improve performance throughout the Programme.
The overall aim of the DIPROG is to drive DIP performance by engaging with regional operational leads and stakeholders, ensuring accountability for performance management and maximising client engagement at all stages of the programme.
The overall aim of the DIPROG is to drive DIP performance by engaging with regional operational leads and stakeholders, ensuring accountability for performance management and maximising client engagement at all stages of the programme.
The key objectives of the Group are:
- to ensure effective operational and strategic delivery to cover wider issues relating to operations (eg. engagement of wider partners etc)
- to identify risks to the programme and develop actions to mitigate these
- to support delivery and focus of the new drug strategy (2008) in particular to increase the number of DIP Conditional Cautions and supporting rehabilitation and re-integration of drug misusing offenders
- to increase the number of drug misusing offenders into the appropriate treatment in both intensive and non-intensives by ensuring the effective use of both legal and voluntary interventions
- to promote appropriate and effective enforcement by the police/CPS and courts where individuals refuse to provide a sample, or fail to attend and remain at their required assessments, or when individuals breach ROB provisions
- to identify practice that supports drug misusing offenders and their families re-establish their lives and build on the gains and positive successes that they may have achieved
- to ensure that alignment between DIP and the PPO scheme is effective
- to receive feedback and action as appropriate issues raised by the Police Strategic Leads Group and the Race Equality and Diversity Scrutiny Panel
To achieve these aims, the group:
- monitors the DIP Management Information system (DIR WEB) to identify attrition/retention rates throughout the programme
- identifies potential areas for 'Walk the Process' visits
- disseminates any guidance or good practice with key stakeholders
- promotes good practice to key stakeholders
- reviews and updates the DIP Regional Operational Group - Increasing Client Engagement (ICE) action plan where appropriate
Good practice from across the regions can be found on this website. The aim is to highlight successful projects and methods of working and to provide plans and ideas for areas to consider and hopefully use according to their particular needs.
