National Drug Strategy Team annual report 2005.

During the year, the Team continued to address fundamental and well-documented operational issues drawn to our attention by the Regional and Local Chairpersons’ Networks, Citywide and the Voluntary Network in order to support and enhance the work of Task Forces in their challenging task of addressing clearly identified needs to address drugs misuse at community level. These included the need for an ‘Emerging Needs Fund’ at local level, maintaining the premises initiative, agreeing the process to put in place the project development workers and administrative assistance at local level, the recruitment process for Regional Drugs Task Force (RDTF) coordinators and the timely assessment of their regional plans...