Combatting Drugs and Alcohol Partnership (CDAP)
Bromley Combating Drugs and Alcohol Partnership (CDAP) is a multi-agency arrangement for borough-wide delivery of the national ten-year drug strategy ‘From Harm to Hope’.
CDAP provides strategic leadership and ensures effective partnership work in efforts to reduce drug and alcohol-related harm. Partnership working allows for a single setting to understand and address shared challenges based on local context and need.
CDAP monitors and supports the delivery of the SSMTR (Supplemental Substance Misuse Treatment and Recovery) Grant. This is extra funding allocated to boroughs to support improvements in drug and alcohol treatment and recovery system.
Duties and functions of CDAP:
There are three key objectives for CDAP:
- Break drug supply chains
- Deliver a world class treatment and recovery system
- Achieve a generational shift in demand for drugs
These objectives are laid out in the ten-year drug strategy, National Policy - ‘From Harm to Hope’.
This strategy sets the formation of Bromley CDAP as a function to establish a borough-wide strategic partnership to deliver on the 3 objectives.
CDAP is chaired by the Director of Public Health as the Senior Responsible Officer, meeting on a quarterly basis. The work is delivered through several subgroups, including:
- Substance Misuse and the Criminal Justice System Subgroup
- Drug and Alcohol Related Deaths Panel (DARD)
- Local Drug Information System (LDIS)
- Data & Intelligence Subgroup
CDAP membership includes the following partners:
- London Borough of Bromley Public Health, Public Protection and Housing
- CGL Bromley (Change Grow Live)
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- SE London ICB (Integrated Care Board)
- King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Metropolitan Police, Bromley, Croydon & Sutton BCU
- Bromley Probation Services
- Department for Work & Pensions
- SE London Mind
- OHID (Office for Health Improvement and Disparities)
- CGL Service User Council
CDAP Stakeholder Event
Bromley Civic Centre hosted the Combatting Drugs and Alcohol Partnership (CDAP) stakeholder event in 2024. Partners came together in person to talk about strengthening collaboration in pursuit of the shared aims set out in the ‘From Harm to Hope’ strategy that underpins the partnership’s work.
The event provided stakeholders with a better understanding of the role and function of CDAP, the partners involved, and the progress made thus far. Most notable, however, was the incorporation of ‘Lived Experience’ voices at the event where service users also attended and volunteered their time to speak about their own journeys through addiction, finding the right support, and providing insights into their roads to recovery.
Positive feedback was provided with the Lived Experience conversation specifically highlighted as an illuminating and inspiration conversation that generated lots of questions and discussion, and emphasised the positive effects that collaborative works between organisations can have on people’s lives.
The organisations that form the partnership and members of staff from the team were all able to unite and make connections with one another to strengthen future collaborative work, and the inclusion of Lived Experience voices was noted as a valuable addition to support CDAP’s ongoing work in improving awareness and delivery of local support in the borough’s front-line services.
For more information on the Combatting Drugs and Alcohol Partnership in Bromley, contact the public health team: publichealth.team@bromley.gov.uk.