In May 2006 the National Probation Directorate (NPD) published Working with Alcohol Misusing Offenders—a strategy for delivery. The strategy, which complements the Prison Service Alcohol Strategy to create a coherent NOMS Alcohol Strategy, contains a number of actions for NPD and recommendations for probation areas to improve provision, many of which are being taken forward in 2006-07. This includes NPD funding to support some best practice projects in probation areas.
Good practice guidance has been issued to prisons to improve the consistency of alcohol services.