The Government has committed to transforming the alcohol and drug treatment and recovery workforce in the new 10-year drug strategy. To deliver this transformation, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) is working with NHS England Workforce Training and Education Directorate (NHSE WT&E) and partners to deliver a national Drug and alcohol treatment and recovery workforce transformation programme.

To inform this programme, NHSE WT&E and OHID have commissioned the NHS Benchmarking Network (NHSBN) to undertake the third annual census and analysis of the workforce currently employed in alcohol and drug treatment and recovery services; lived experience recovery organisations (LEROs) and in local authority (LA) alcohol and drug commissioning teams in England.

The scope of this project is:

• Local authority (LA) alcohol and drug commissioning teams

• Local authority (LA) -commissioned adult and young people’s community drug and alcohol treatment and recovery, residential rehabilitation, and inpatient detoxification service providers, including NHS and third sector providers reporting to the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS). This should include services funded by LAs through the local drug and alcohol treatment budget including those funded by the public health grant, Supplemental Substance Misuse Treatment and Recovery grant, Rough Sleeping Drug and Alcohol Treatment (RSDATG), Individual Placement and Support (IPS), ADDER/Accelerator and any other drug and alcohol treatment and recovery related direct grant from OHID to LAs

• Lived experience recovery organisations (LEROs)

It will provide details of the size of the workforce by role as well as profiling its diversity in terms age, gender, disability and ethnicity.

Participants will receive a bespoke report outlining key messages and metrics, which compare local data against nationally reported positions.

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