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The Black Review is the biggest opportunity in a generation to reform and renew our treatment and recovery system. I've blogged for @collect_voice on it - thread below. https://www.collectivevoice.org.uk/blog/the-black-review-a-once-in-a-generation-opportunity-to-level-up-our-treatment-and-recovery-system/
The major risk is that the recommendations of the Review will be overlooked in a year dominated by Covid19, Brexit and recession. As a field we must keep the flame burning once it is published.
In the face of years of disinvestment, Covid19 and a drug-related deaths crisis we urge @DHSCgovuk to publish the Independent Review as soon as possible. We urge - and hope - that political decision-makers will seriously consider and implement the recommendations.
We believe the review should: Adopt a person-centred understanding of drug dependency with a broader understanding of 'success', a focus on connection, community and meaning and an understanding of how multiple disadvantage works to impede life chances
Recommend a strengthened policy coordination function at the centre of government using standardised approaches and data to support local areas to deliver high quality services
Recommend a major uplift in funding through a ring-fenced settlement to support drug treatment as part of the 2021 Comprehensive Spending Review. The Public Health Grant should be restored to 2015 levels and ring-fenced.
Keep commissioning responsibility chiefly at the local government level with the added weight at the centre - but think about how more joint commissioning could occur across areas of multiple need, primary care, probation etc
Fully address the importance and financial fragility of Tier 4 (in-patient detox and residential rehabilitation) pathways, suggesting a specialist central commissioning function
Offer a compelling vision of how the field can work together to nurture the skills and development of the workforce - providers are already working together on shared approaches to skills / learning and development / apprenticeships
Address the declines in referral treatment pathways from prison to the community, as well as the decline in community sentences and drug rehabilitation requirements identified in part one of the Review.
We at @collect_voice are ready to do all we can and work with providers, commissioners, officials and those with lived experience around shared vision/goals.
Please promote the importance of publishing the Review and - most crucially - of political decision makers responding to the review to all policy / public affairs stakeholders. 
