Needs Assessment -
Regional
Regional
Bronze:
•Estimate of number of problematic drug
users in catchment area, derived from official statistics such as BCS and
NDTMS
•Estimate of number of accessible beds
for this population in catchment area
•Estimate of population size of housed
drug users, based on SP returns
•Estimate of non-housed population of
housed drug users based on street-counts
Silver:
• as above, augmented with interviews with drug
agencies, hostel managers, and users
Gold:
• Audit of existing bed-spaces, and their
accessibility to drug users
•Review of housing providers, their
policies, exclusion rates and retention rates in relation to drug
use
•Full assessment of need,
using qualitative and quantitative methods, and multiple sources including
SP, drug treatment agencies, Nx, Local Authority, police