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.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 27 September 2017
• Last updated: 4 October 2018 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 12 February 2025

This guidance has been withdrawn because it’s out of date. Local partnerships can read about commissioning effective alcohol and drug treatment and recovery services in their areas at Commissioning quality standard: alcohol and drug services.

Applies to England

Documents

[Withdrawn] Alcohol commissioning support: principles and indicators

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[Withdrawn] Drugs commissioning support: principles and indicators

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[Withdrawn] Tobacco commissioning support: principles and indicators

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[Withdrawn] Young people commissioning support: principles and indicators

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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. 4 October 2018

   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. 27 September 2017

   First published.