Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service Professionals Consultation 2021

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Consultation has concluded

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council currently commission a specialist drug and alcohol treatment service for adults and a separate specialist treatment service for young people. The current adult service contract is coming to an end next April. We have an opportunity to review what’s currently on offer, to check whether these services deliver all the things that people feel they need to, and to plan what our future services might look like.

We need your views and ideas on:

  • What works well with our current services?
  • What you feel doesn’t work as well?
  • Whether you feel there are any significant gaps?
  • What an ideal service would look like in future?

Your feedback will help shape our ideas and in turn, the specification that we will write for our future services.

This consultation will be open for six weeks from 18th May 2021 to 28th June 2021 and there will be several ways that you can help us shape our future services:

1. Complete the survey below (and encourage others to do so)

2. Join us for one of our online consultation events on 24th May 2021, 1pm or 2nd June 2021, 6pm

We would really value your ideas on how we make sure we have good services in future.

Please email SouthendDAAT@southend.gov.uk :

  • If you would like to register for one of the online consultation events
  • If you would like to take the survey or participate in a different way (e.g. a paper copy) or,
  • If you have any questions about the consultation

To read about how the Council handles data please visit the Privacy Notice on the Council website.

This consultation has now closed


Southend-on-Sea Borough Council currently commission a specialist drug and alcohol treatment service for adults and a separate specialist treatment service for young people. The current adult service contract is coming to an end next April. We have an opportunity to review what’s currently on offer, to check whether these services deliver all the things that people feel they need to, and to plan what our future services might look like.

We need your views and ideas on:

  • What works well with our current services?
  • What you feel doesn’t work as well?
  • Whether you feel there are any significant gaps?
  • What an ideal service would look like in future?

Your feedback will help shape our ideas and in turn, the specification that we will write for our future services.

This consultation will be open for six weeks from 18th May 2021 to 28th June 2021 and there will be several ways that you can help us shape our future services:

1. Complete the survey below (and encourage others to do so)

2. Join us for one of our online consultation events on 24th May 2021, 1pm or 2nd June 2021, 6pm

We would really value your ideas on how we make sure we have good services in future.

Please email SouthendDAAT@southend.gov.uk :

  • If you would like to register for one of the online consultation events
  • If you would like to take the survey or participate in a different way (e.g. a paper copy) or,
  • If you have any questions about the consultation

To read about how the Council handles data please visit the Privacy Notice on the Council website.

This consultation has now closed


Consultation has concluded
  • Feedback from previous consultation

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    The last full consultation about the adult service contract took place in late 2016 / early 2017. Alongside this, the Social Inclusion Team had begun consultation with service users in late 2019 / early 2020, prior to the pandemic which shifted our plans for commissioning new services. Generally the themes that emerged from these consultations were:

    • Most people are happy with the services they have engaged with
    • Most felt they had been helped to achieve their goals with regard to addressing their drug and alcohol use
    • The key theme for improvement was for more one-to-one time with their keyworkers

    We are keen to understand what your views and perceptions of the service more recently are as well.