Blogs
Blogs from Addaction staff looking at news, government initiatives and views from workers in the field.
Recent entries
- Get PbR right and we could be on to something – get it wrong and any attempt to bring about change will be an unmitigated disasterThe Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, is right when he says the UK’s reoffending rates are far too high; that there should be a concerted effort to reduce them; and that a Payment By Results model of working (or PbR ) can help us achieve this. But the...
- Breaking the cycle through social investmentThe term 'social investment' is cropping up with increasing frequency in the world of service funding and service provision. The first Social Impact Bond in the UK was launched in 2010 and since then a range of social investment projects have been introduced to fund a wide range of services from...
- There is a wider lesson to be learned from the experiences of people like Paul GascoigneJust last Friday I met a wonderful family that had been supported by Addaction. The impact of the mother's 20 year alcohol addiction had inevitably affected the whole family and with careful support for mum and for each of the four children they were gradually putting their lives back together. In...
- Addiction is a sprawling, complex issue that takes in all kinds of factors. So why do we only ever talk about legalisation?Recently, I spent time in Liverpool with a group of recovering addicts and talked about their recovery. They spoke about how treatment had helped them to rebuild their lives. They talked about their families. They talked about their aspirations. Not once did they talk about the legalisation, or...
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Simon Antrobus
Chief Executive of Addaction.
