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Vulnerable Young Person's Drugs Worker

Meeting: 22/03/2011 - General Purposes Committee (old) (Item 108)

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  The committee to consider proposals for the future of this post.

Minutes:

The Committee were asked to agree the deletion of the vulnerable young person’s drug worker role. The purpose of this role was to reduce substance misuse among vulnerable young people and enable them to sustain and resume education, training or employment, and improve their personal safety. The worker acted as a link between schools and specialist treatment services. The worker carried out casework with individual young people, drop-in advice sessions for young people, awareness-raising sessions for parents/carers and training for school staff. However referrals to this worker have been low over a sustained period with 3 current cases open.

 

The Employee side communicated to the Committee their objections to the proposals to delete this post and provided some background to the post holder’s role and the process to commission this service externally. They referred to the linkage with youth services, which the post holder had, and associated the reductions in case load to the use of the Common Assessment Framework. The latter argument was disputed by officers in being a reason for a reduced workload.

 

 

 

RESOLVED

 

  1. That the Committee note that formal consultation on these proposals began on 20th January 2011 and was concluded on the 3rd March 2011.

 

  1. That comments received from staff and trades unions and the management response to these attached at appendix 2 be noted.

 

  1. That the deletion of the post, taking into account the outcome of the staff consultation and paying due regard to the Council’s public sector equalities duties be approved.