SETDAB Drug and Alcohol Basic Awareness E-learning

SETDABs Drug and Alcohol Basic Awareness E-learning package can be accessed on the ESCA Academy partnership e-learning platform.

This site is free to use for organisations across Southend, Essex & Thurrock. Please visit the site and register your details. The e-learning package covers the following learning outcomes:

• Have an understanding of national drug and alcohol legislation and drug classes.
• Understand the relationship between domestic abuse and substance misuse
• Demonstrate knowledge of physical and psychological addiction.
• Have an understanding of drug categories and side effects.
• Be able to demonstrate knowledge of how to prevent drug related deaths.
• Have knowledge of how to signpost and refer users to local support services.

As of October 2025, we have moved to a new learning platform so you will need to set a new account up to access this course; this is a quick process.

You can access the training by registering/logging on here.

Update 10th Nov 2025 – we are aware that YouTube videos are not playing – this is a platform wide issue that the developers are looking into.  In the meantime if you complete a course, the system may not recognise this as the videos were not launched; to get your completion certificate email us and we will issue you one: domestic.abuseessex@essex.gov.uk