Residential Rehabilitation Working Group: terms of reference

Proposed remit

• advise Scottish Ministers on a programme of work to ensure for the provision of drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation services across Scotland to ensure that everyone who requires has access to it. This will include summarising existing drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation services across the 31 IJBs in Scotland and identification of good practice examples;
• deliver a review of existing pathways in, through and out of drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation, including identifying barriers and opportunities;
• set out models of funding and delivery of residential rehabilitation treatment;
• provide practical advice to Scottish Ministers on evidence and tools to anticipate service demand and uptake to support capacity planning;
• provide support to the Drug Deaths Taskforce in tests of change work to reduce deaths and improve access to residential rehabilitation;
• explore the potential for a national approach to measuring the success of residential rehabilitation services.

Duration and frequence of meeting

• the group will be established in early summer 2020 and will report to Scottish Government in autumn 2020
• frequency of meetings will be established in discussion with the group at the first meeting.  However, we anticipate the group will meet a maximum of four times, each meeting lasting around two hours, in order to conclude its work according to timetable
• Scottish Government Alcohol and Drug National Support Team will support the Chair and provide secretariat to the group to ensure objectives are achieved

Membership

Name	Organisation/group	Interest/capacity
Dr David McCartney	LEAP	Chair
April Adam	Fife Intensive Rehabilitation and Substance Misuse Team (FIRST)	Third sector
Annemargaret Black	Chief Officer for Clacks and Stirling	IJBs
Graeme Callander	Scottish Government
Angela Mogan	Community Justice Scotland	Community Justice Scotland
Justina Murray	Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs	Lived experience
David Pentland	Via Change Team	Homelessness
Jardine Simpson	Scottish Recovery Consortium	Lived experience
Dr Zoe Stanley	Consultant Clinical Psychologist/Head of Substance Misuse Psychology, Forth Valley Substance Misuse Services	LPASS
Vaughan Statham	Prison Care Network	Prison care
Rosemary White	North Ayrshire Alcohol and Drug Partnership	Alcohol and Drugs Partnership Coordinators
Lyndsey Wilson Hague	Phoenix Futures	Rehab providers