Your location: Drugs in Housing Settings: Legal Issues
Applicable to: England
Course is available in: London; Bristol
Key legal issues relating to drug use in housing settings, balancing the need to house people who use drugs against the need to ensure that provision is robustly legal and safe.
Course contains
- Criminal and civil legislation
- Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Antisocial Behaviour Act 2003 - Case law
- The Wintercomfort Trial - Recent Developments
- Amendment to Section 8 of the Misuse of Drugs Act
- Reclassification of cannabis - Good practice
- Responding to possession, use and supply
- Dealing with paraphernalia.
Suitable for
Housing advisers, housing project managers, legal advisers and any other professionals encountering and developing responses to drug use in housing settings.
Note
This is not a 'drugs awareness' course and will not address basic drug facts. Such knowledge is not a prerequisite for this course, though it will assist the devlopment of effective housing responses.
Run this course in-house
All of our courses can also be run in-house, at your office or a venue of your choice. For details please call Amanda on 0844 515 1161 or email inhousetraining@shelter.org.uk