Guidance

Alcohol, drugs and tobacco: commissioning support pack

Annual guidance on smoking, drinking and drug misuse for commissioners of tobacco control, drug and alcohol services for adults and young people.

Documents

Alcohol commissioning support: principles and indicators

Drugs commissioning support: principles and indicators

Tobacco commissioning support: principles and indicators

Young people commissioning support: principles and indicators

Details

This commissioning support guidance will help commissioners and local authorities develop joint strategic needs assessment and health and wellbeing strategies to reduce the harm caused by smoking, drinking, substance use and misuse in both adults and children.

The guidance covers planning for:

  • alcohol harm prevention, treatment and recovery in adults
  • drugs prevention, treatment and recovery in adults
  • substance misuse interventions for young people
  • local smoking and tobacco control interventions

For each of these topics, there are a set of good practice principles and indicators or questions to help local areas assess need and plan and commission effective services and interventions.

PHE centre teams send local authorities their bespoke data to help them commission effective services and interventions.

Published 27 September 2017
Last updated 4 October 2018 + show all updates
  1. Updated with the 2019 to 2020 commissioning support pack principles and indicators for alcohol, drugs, tobacco and young people. Removed the previous year's documents.

  2. First published.