Substance use problems in a multicultural Scotland- Neville Adams presentation 26 July 2007

1. Substance use problems in a multicultural Scotland- Neville Adams presentation 26 July 2007

2. Race Equality Dimension to Drug User's Service Journey

3. Europe • Drug strategy • Criminal Justice • Treatment • EMCDDA • T3E projects • Anti-discriminatory work • Civil society and networks

4. Key race themes • Between treatment and criminal justice • Stereotypes posing as need • Citizens or citizenship • economic migrants • asylum seekers and refugees • Underdeveloped equality infra-structure • Marginalisation

5. Race Equality Core Framework

6. Rule-of-thumb operational principles • It’s services should be able to identify and meet the needs of the most marginalised: if they are not then there is something fundamentally wrong with those services • The public sector has an enormous employment remit with, in many instances, public sector organisations being the largest employers in any one locale. Its employment practices should be of the highest anti-discriminatory standards • Service users and local communities, particularly marginalised communities, should be actively involved in the development and provision of those services

7. Anti-discriminatory legislative framework • Struggles to secure legal rights • Political vicissitudes • From voluntaristic to mandatory • Winning the moral battle • Equality duties • Equality Impact Assessments • DLR – watch this space or gape at the void

8. Policy development • Power structure ownership and backing • Legislation • Accurate information • Policy stakeholders' involvement • Implementation structure • Accountability systems and processes

9. Commissioning • Accurate population data • Wading through stereotypes and representations • drug use patterns • substantive identification of need • Including asylum seekers • contextualising social, political, and economic needs • research • inclusive participative engagement • updated databases

10. Service development

11. From policy to service frontline • Implementation structure • accountability process • Stakeholder involvement • Guidance frameworks

12. Race paradigms • multi-culturalism?? • diversity??? • cultural competence!!??*#% • race equality • anti-racist • democratisation

13. Review and evaluation • Participative stakeholder involvement

14. Employment • Recruitment and retention of Black/visible minority workers • Employee's lifecycle • coming into employment • being in employment • leaving employment

15. External relationships • Participative anti-discriminatory democratising engagement • Procurement • Partnerships