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Collective Voice has worked hard to support the sector at this challenging time. We will be updating this page when new relevant guidance emerges so please keep checking back. We

A new strategic vision The recent Conservative manifesto was light on detail around drug and alcohol treatment, however a subsequent addition was published laying out plans to tackle addiction. This

Over the past couple of months Collective Voice has held four ‘roadshow’ type events around the country. The purpose of these was threefold: bringing together local systems to explore how

Thanks for your interest in the Campaigns officer position. We’re a small organisation with a big mission. We want anyone in England with a drug or alcohol problem to be able to

Since August last year I’ve visited many charities around the country hard at work supporting local (and in a few cases not so local) people struggling with their drug or

Dee Cunniffe, Policy Lead, London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C I first became fully aware of how devastating hepatitis C could be through someone who was very

A few weeks ago I attended the National Substance Misuse Conference in Birmingham and ran a workshop looking at our sector’s current response to the use of drugs and alcohol

The human lives behind the numbers On the long view, last month’s ONS report on drug-related deaths show that people continue to die in record numbers from the use of

19 July 2018 On the 4 July I took part in a panel at Homeless Link’s annual conference. Although I don’t start as Director for another month or so, I

13 July 2018 Last summer, as I stepped into the new policy role at Collective Voice, the Government seemed to have left itself in an odd position. It had just