More details have been given of the Commission for Social Care Inspection’s review of access to social care. It will focus on a framework for personalised services and will involve a range of service users. The review was announced last month and follows the CSCI report into the state of social care which highlighted the problems faced by people who were unable to meet local authorities’ eligibility criteria for care.

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Local authorities have been quick to show their support for a campaign to recognise the importance of councillors. The Local Government Information Unit has reported a ‘terrific response from councils’ who have signed up to ‘Supporting Councillors: a manifesto for councils’. It plans to have 100 councils signed up by the end of March before the Government is due to give its formal response to the report of the Councillors Commission, ‘Representing the Future.’

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By Stuart Lister, Emma Wincup, Toby Seddon, Sam Barrett and Peter Traynor

Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain, a ten-year strategy published in 1998, focused strongly on tackling drug-related crime. The police play important role in combining the curbing of drugs supply with the potentially contradictory role of channeling drug-using offenders into treatment. The authors describe how street policing involves policing personnel having frequent contact with problem drug users for a variety of reasons. They outline ways in which problem drug users could be better managed, including improving relationships between policing agencies and treatment agencies.

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