Blackpool CDP Progress Report 2024

As part of the 2021 drugs strategy, every local area across England was asked to form a Combating Drugs Partnership.
These partnerships bring together a range of local partners - including enforcement, treatment, recovery, and prevention – and provide a single setting for understanding and addressing shared challenges related to drug-related harm, based on local context and need.

In some areas, these partnerships also include strategic direction for alcohol-related harm.
Blackpool formed the Combating Drugs and Alcohol Partnership (CDAPB) in 2022, with the Director of Public Health as its Chair/Senior Responsible Officer. The Board brings together individuals and organisations with responsibility for delivering the strategic priorities of the drug strategy – breaking supply, treatment and recovery and reducing demand.

The Board reports to Blackpool Community Safety Partnership (BSafe) and Blackpool Health and Wellbeing Board.
The Board is Blackpool-focused, but Blackpool is also represented by the Director of Public Health at an additional pan-Lancashire policy group.

The progress report has now been updated for 2024, Blackpool CPD Progress Report 2024

PSHE

Personal, social, health and economic education is a school curriculum subject in England that focuses on strengthening the knowledge, skills, and connections to keep children and young people healthy and safe and prepare them for life and work.

Schools should refer to the DfE statutory guidance to inform their delivery.

In addition, below are resources designed to support you in your work within schools around implementation of relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. It includes the latest links to RSHE resources and trusted national organisations.

1. Consulting with parents and pupils, and developing policy
2. What to teach and how to teach it
3. Sustaining success

Key areas of RSHE

The introduction of statutory RSHE in September 2020 focuses on mandatory education in the following areas:

Mental wellbeing

Internet safety and harms

Physical health and fitness

Healthy eating

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Health and prevention

Basic first aid

Changing adolescent body

STI Symptom Checker

Unusual discharge
Pain, burning or increase in weeing
Rashes, lumps or blisters
Stinging, itching or tingling
Pain and/or bleeding during sex
Bleeding after sex

Pain in the testicles (balls)
Pain or tenderness in the lower tummy
Irregular bleeding
Strong, unpleasant smell from the vagina after sex
Painful swelling of penis, testicles or foreskin
Brown eggs on pubic or other body hair
No Symptoms

Get tested if you have any of these symptoms, a sexual partner has symptoms or you’re worried after having sex without a condom. Many STIs have no symptoms at all, like HIV. The only way to know for sure is to get tested.