As part of the 2021 drugs strategy, every local area across England was requested to form a Combatting Drugs Partnership.
These partnerships bring together a range of local partners – including enforcement, treatment, recovery, and prevention – and provide a single setting for understanding and addressing shared challenges related to drug-related harm, based on local context and need.
The Combatting Drugs and Alcohol Partnership (CDAP) acts as a multi-agency board overseeing the three strands of the ‘From Harm to Hope’ national drug strategy:
1. break drug supply chains
2. deliver a world-class treatment and recovery system
3. achieve a shift in the demand for drugs
The WMCDAP covers the seven local authority areas that make up the West Midlands Metropolitan Area:
- Birmingham City Council
- City of Wolverhampton Council
- Coventry City Council
- Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council
- Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
- Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
- Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council
The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Simon Foster is the Chair and Senior Responsible Owner of the Partnership.
The membership consists of:
- The PCC and relevant members of his Office (the Head of Policy and the Drug and Alcohol Lead)
- Local authority officials (Director of Public Health and Substance Misuse Leads from each local authority)
- NHS (including strategic and mental health provider representation)
- West Midlands Police
- Probation Service
