WEDP/Practitioners’Forum/TOR/ May2006/KLH
West End Drugs Partnership Practitioners’ Forum
TERMS OF REFERENCE
Aim
The purpose of this group is to discuss operational issues that will lead to
effective service delivery to the client group.
Objectives
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To maintain and encourage Partnership, cross-border and multi agency
liaison, intelligence and dialogue on drug activity in the West End.
To facilitate effective communication and partnership between
representatives of agencies including commissioners, enforcement and
other appropriate professionals.
To identify and action opportunities for joint working
To information share relating to street trends, policies and procedures
and examples of best practice
To highlight gaps in sector knowledge /awareness and engage in
dissemination of appropriate information to address this
To consider training needs across the agencies involved, and plan
training together.
To develop effective communication and partnership links with both the
WEDP community-led Forum and Managers’ Forum.
Constitution
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The Forum has a WEDP Co-ordinator who will provide the organisation
and secretariat.
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This Forum will have confidentiality in the information exchanged – if a
forum member does not require certain information to go beyond the
forum, it will not do so. This is intended to promote safety and security
in the context of information shared.
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There should be a flow of information between the forums, available to
all forum members. The minutes from each group’s meetings will be
sent to the respective meeting Chairs. The Co-ordinator will also
attend the other Fora and so can facilitate further effective
communication.
Meeting details
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The Practitioners’ Forum will meet every six weeks at St Giles in the
Fields church, 60 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LG