London Families Forum

Group for all parental substance misuse practitioners and aligned professionals in London

The terms of reference to the group were ratified in December 2016.

2018 meetings

The London Families Forum is a quarterly meeting, created after Adfam's London Families Network and The Children Society's Pan London Parental Substance Misuse Forum merged in January 2018. It aims to provide a network of support for family members and family support services to share best practice, influence policy and practice, and integrate families’ needs into drug and alcohol misuse recovery planning, monitoring and decision making.

Attendance: The forum brings together practitioners who work with families affected by a loved one’s drug or alcohol use, drug and alcohol treatment services, volunteers and family members.

Dates and location: Four meetings scheduled across the year, meeting from 10am – 1pm at a venue based near Kings Cross.

Dates for 2018 are:

• Wednesday 7th February
• Tuesday 3rd April
• Wednesday 6th June
• Wednesday 3rd October

All updates about the work of the London Families Forum will now be provided on the Adfam website. For more information and to register please contact Syeda Hussain. 

Archive of forum papers

2017

• December minutes and agenda
• October minutes and agenda
• June minutes
• April agenda

2016

• December minutes and agenda
• October minutes and agenda
• August minutes
• June minutes and agenda
• April minutes and agenda
• February minutes and agenda

2015

• December minutes
• August minutes and agenda - in addition a copy of the presentation given on the AVA project and information on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): sheet 4 and sheet 5
• June minutes and agenda
• April minutes
• February minutes and agenda

2014

• December minutes and agenda
• October minutes and agenda
• August minutes
• June minutes and presentation notes
• April minutes and presentation notes - substance misuse and pregnancy and a Q&A document

2013

• December minutes 
• October minutes
• August minutes
• June minutes - including the full version and executive summary of Adfam’s parental substance report, the diagram of the child’s cycle of change and the full and summary versions of Ofsted's report 'What about the Children'
• April minutes