Substance Misuse Action Team

Worcestershire Substance Misuse Action Team (SMAT) is a multi-agency partnership of Chief Officers or their representatives from a range of agencies tasked with addressing the misuse of drugs and alcohol and implementing the national strategies associated with this work.  These include:

• The 10-year National Drugs Strategy – Drugs: protecting families and communities;
• The Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy – Safe. Sensible. Social. The next steps in the National Alcohol Strategy.

Worcestershire SMAT as a partnership has a strategic role with regards to strategy, planning, commissioning and performance managing the services and activities carried out on its behalf in order to achieve its agreed mission statement.  This is to:

‘Reduce the harm that drugs and alcohol cause to individuals, families and communities within Worcestershire’

The partners comprising Worcestershire SMAT include the following:

• Community Safety Partnership representatives
• Worcestershire County Council (Adult and Community Services, Children’s Services)
• District Council (Community Safety, Housing)
• Worcestershire Primary Care Trust
• West Mercia Constabulary
• West Midlands Ambulance NHS Trust
• Worcestershire and Herefordshire Youth Offending Services
• Herefordshire and Worcestershire ConneXions
• HM Prison Service
• West Mercia Probation Trust
• Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

The Worcestershire Substance Misuse Action Team is based at County Hall

Contact them on Tel. 01905 766735 or Fax 01905 766930

email: smatadmin@worcestershire.gov.uk  

Click here to access the SMAT website