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Acknowledgements
This guidance was developed following two extensive consultation periods which
involved Assistant Chief Officers (ACOs) with policy responsibility for substance
misuse across the 42 probation areas/trusts in England and Wales, Directors of
Offender Management (DOMs) and other key stakeholders from within and
outside Government. These included NOMS Offender Assessment and
Management Group (OAMG) (Offender Management Team and OASys Data,
Evaluation and Analysis Team (O-DEAT)); NOMS Performance Management
Unit; Specification, Benchmarking and Costing (SBC) Programme; Ministry of
Justice (Offender Management and Sentencing Analytical Services (OMSAS);
Partnerships and Health Strategy Unit; Women and Third Sector Unit);
Department of Health (Alcohol Policy Team, Offender Health and the Alcohol
Improvement Programme); National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse;
Home Office Alcohol Strategy Unit; Alcohol Concern; representatives from the
alcohol treatment sector; Alcoholics Anonymous; Adfam; the Alcohol Education
Research Council (AERC) Alcohol Academy; the Welsh Assembly Government
and the Scottish Government.
We would like to thank in particular Don Lavoie and Dave Marteau (Department
of Health); Wulf Livingston (North Wales Probation Area); Diana Johnson (West
Yorkshire Probation Area); Dezlee Dennis (London Probation Area); Nicola Smith
(Sheffield Alcohol Advisory Service); Bobbie Jones, Karen MacLeod and Sarah
Winwin Sein (NOMS Offender Management Team); Tim McSweeney (Institute
for Criminal Policy Research, King’s College London); Dr. Dorothy Newbury-
Birch (Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University) and Peter Blomley
(NOMS South West) for their helpful input during the consultation process.
We are also grateful to Sue Brown (Merseyside Probation Trust); Peter Jones
(Cheshire Probation Area); Paul Yates (former Assistant Chief Officer,
Derbyshire Probation Area); Mike Ruffles (previously Devon & Cornwall
Probation Area); Don Shenker (Alcohol Concern); Trevor McCarthy (ex-National
Treatment Agency); and all those who have contributed to the success of NOMS
Alcohol Best Practice Projects Initiative since its inception in 2006 for their advice
and support during the lengthy gestation period of the guidance.
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