The Drug Treatment and Testing Order : early lessons : ninth report of session 2004-05 : report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence / Committee of Public Accounts.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee of Public Accounts.
Date:
2005
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Credit: The Drug Treatment and Testing Order : early lessons : ninth report of session 2004-05 : report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence / Committee of Public Accounts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Summary The Drug Treatment and Testing Order (The tec is a communi sentence intended for drug misusers who have a significant record of drug-related offending, and it has been | as an alternative to custody The Orders requires afendeen to sobrnit to Lash ane testing, to isa intensive treatment and Jnee waar § Eee and to have et progress reviewed regularly by the courts. Offenders on the er are supervised by loca! obation teams. The main requirements of He Orden are set by e fem Office rari are summarised at Figure 1. The main focus for probation teams to date has been the delivery of annual targets for the number of commencements on pt wars But the n main challenge ee sis niele tees pena ao) s te ed ir ad reache orn on revoked ear gress, vith oniiett variations in completion rates ead the Beane The National Offender Management Service report, however, that offending is reduced for each week an offender is kept on the programme. Local probation and drug treatment teams have adopted a wide variety of different approaches to delivering the main requirements of the Order ranging from how they select offenders for the Order, the content and quality of rehabilitation programmes provided, such as education programmes, and their approach to enforcement. The methods adopted locally are likely to have an important influence on how effective programmes are in keeping offenders on the programme, but better data is needed to pinpoint which methods work best. Some areas have had difficulty fulfilling the main requirements of the Order. Only 44% of cases monitored by probation areas between July and October 2003 showed evidence that the minimum of 15 contact hours per week during the first 13 weeks of the Order had been arranged.