For info on drug and alcohol services,
call 0800 073 0817
call 0800 073 0817
BDAAT Information
Young People
The Birmingham Drug and Alcohol Action Team’s aim in relation to children and young people is to prevent today’s young people from becoming tomorrow’s problem drug users.
Birmingham Drug and Alcohol Action Team (Children and Young People) is the strategic partnership responsible for the implementation of the National Drug Strategy in Birmingham. It reports both locally and regionally, and has a responsibility to supply information to the Government Office for the West Midlands (GOWM). Collectively the Partnership delivers against the aims of the National Drug Strategy Birmingham, using both specific grants and budgets from National Government and the mainstream resources of its partner agencies.
The BDAAT works in conjunction with Every Child Matters: Change for Children Agenda which is a big project across England that involves everyone who works with children and young people. This includes teachers, doctors, nurses, social workers, youth workers and many other people and agencies.
Every Child Matters places substance misuse under the ‘Be Healthy’ outcome. Substance misuse can impact on every aspect of a child’s life. Birmingham’s children’s plan reflects this by recognising the impact of substance misuse on all five outcomes of the Birmingham Children and Young People’s Substance Misuse Strategy and the valuable contribution of young people’s substance misuse services in assisting young people to achieve them.
