Written Submission to Dame Carol Black review

We’ve submitted a consultation response on the Government’s Anti-Social Behaviour Plan jointly with Liberty due to the potential implications that the plan may have on our civil liberties, as they’re implemented through drug control measures.  The proposed changes would have far-reaching consequences for our clients and wider society if introduced and are well worth having on…

Release partnered with Unjust UK to submit evidence to the Public Accounts Committee’s Inquiry into government’s progress implementing its 10-year drug strategy, which was published in 2021. We have published our complete thoughts on the strategy here. The Committee began hearing oral evidence on 30 November. Our submission was accepted as evidence and published to the…

Release has partnered with Cranstoun, Transform and EuroNPUD in their response to the Scottish Conservative’s December 2021 consultation on the Right to Addiction Recovery (Scotland) Bill which is being proposed within the Scottish Parliament as a potential act of law.  While the focus on recovery and its potential motivations are laudable, many questions remain in its zero-tolerance perspective…

Our submission sought to oppose some of the measures within the proposed Bill, arguing that they would increase social harms, criminalise vulnerable communities, and are ineffective or redundant. Criminalising aspects of sex work (NC1 and NC2): We argued that criminalising aspects of sex work, such as the purchase of sex (NC2) and the facilitation of…