VSDAA – Voluntary Sector Drug & Alcohol Agencies
Mission Statement
VSDAA, working in partnership with commissioners and the statutory sector, provide a collective voice to influence the strategic and operational direction of drug and alcohol services in the city
VSDAA aims to:
- Collectively contribute to the drug and alcohol strategy in Glasgow.
- Identify common areas of concern
- Encourage sharing of information, policies, good practice and research
- Promote the benefits of the voluntary sector
- Protect the interests of the voluntary sector
- Uphold the principles of service user involvement in informing the views of individual organisations and wider strategies
- Promoting welfare of service user and their recovery through our services
Membership
Membership of VSDAA is open to voluntary sector organisations that develop and deliver alcohol and drug services in the Glasgow area.
The Scottish Government plans to introduce Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol on 1 May 2018. Before they introduce the Minimum Unit Price, the Scottish Ministers ran a public consultation to gather views from people, businesses, public bodies and interested parties about the Scottish Government’s preferred price of 50 pence per unit of alcohol. This ran from 1 December 2017 to 26 January 2018. A report analysing the responses to the consultation was published on 26 February 2018 and is available at:
https://consult.gov.scot/alcohol-policy/minimum-unit-pricing
Minimum Unit Pricing 1st May – Printed Leaflets now available (pdf flyer)