About Us
Wirral Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) brings together a wide range of local public bodies and voluntary organisations that are all concerned with the effects of drug and alcohol use in Wirral. We are responsible for meeting local targets, set by the Government, to reduce the harmful and health risks caused by substance misuse. Our aims reflect the Governments key strands of work within the national strategy. They are:
- Preventing harm to children, young people and families affected by drug and alcohol misuse;
- Protecting communities through tackling drug supply drug and alcohol related crime and anti-social behaviour;
- Delivering new approaches to drug and alcohol treatment and social reintegration;
- Providing public information campaigns, communications and community engagement.
Wirral is deeply committed to the increasingly successful and growing recovery programme. This has strong links to patterns in mainstream services which can provide support with mentoring, housing, training and employment with the aim of helping people achieve abstinence and/or sustained recovery from their substance misuse.
This website provides brief information on a full range of general services that provide help, advice and support to those people and their families, who are affected by drug and alcohol misuse.
Please note: Wirral DAAT is not itself a treatment service. People seeking advice support or treatment should directly approach the services in this directory
Annual Report 2008/09