Drugs & Alcohol
Communities Against Drugs Funding
The Communities Against Drugs Initiative is an important part of the Government's commitment to help communities mobilise against drugs. New resources were allocated to this in the spring 2001 Budget – a total of £220 million over three years (£50 million/£70 million and £100 million). The funds are for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs) to disrupt local drugs markets and drugs related crime.
The allocations announced to date are as follows:
The allocation has been designed to ensure that each partnership will receive some funding while at the same time targeting resources at those areas with the worst problems. Funds have been released to Local Authorities (who will hold the funds for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships), as grant conditions have been agreed. Partnerships will have a great deal of flexibility over the way that the money is spent. The only requirements are that CDRPs should have the agreement of the local BCU police commander and Drugs Action Team on a strategy before any interventions funded with the money can begin, and that the money is used for the purposes of disrupting drugs markets and tackling drug related crime and disorder. A third of the allocation for the first year was for capital expenditure.
Initial allocations were announced in July 2001, and allocations for 2002-03 were announced on 1 July 2002 by Home Office Minister John Denham. The final allocations for 2003 – 2004 will be announced in due course. The funding formula may be refined to take account of other factors. Guidance has been issued to partnerships on the purposes of the funding and the way in which it can be used through two Home Office Circulars (HOC 23/2001, HOC 15/2002)
The Communities Against Drugs Toolkit, was also launched to coincide with the initial allocation of funding. Further guidance on the year 1 operation of the scheme has been sent out to CDRPs and is available here. The guidance was accompanied by a Home Office Circular notice available here.
Further information on the scheme can also be found in the Communities Against Drugs leaflet.
Further Details
The funding stream for this initiative has now been superseded by the Building Safer Communities (BSC) Fund.
Click here for further BSC information
Last update: Tuesday, October 03, 2006