Drug and Alcohol Related Addiction Referrals - Find a freedom of information request

1.

a) The number of funded drug and alcohol-related addiction referrals made by the Council to residential rehabilitation centres in each of the past three years (from 2016-17 to 2018-19);

b) The number of unfunded drug and alcohol-related addiction referrals made by the Council to residential rehabilitation centres in each of the past three years (ie, for free residential rehabilitation places);

2. A list of the residential rehabilitation centres and/or organisations to which the Council has made drug and alcohol-related addiction referrals in the past three years;

3. The number of these referrals made to rehabilitation centres run by the organisation Betel of Britain;

4. A breakdown of all of these figures for each financial year.

1a.  The council do not make referrals for residential rehabilitation this is all contracted out as part of a much larger contract which monitors outcome and not throughput.

• 2016/17 – 0
• 2017/18 – 0
• 2018/19 - 0

1b.   The council do not make unfunded drug and alcohol related addiction referrals.

• 2016/17 – 0
• 2017/18 – 0
• 2018/19 - 0

2. The council have not made any referrals so do not hold a list of residential rehabilitation centres

3. No referrals have been made to Betel of Britain

4. The council has spent the following amounts on substance misuse treatment and recovery, the amount of the budget spent on residential rehabilitation is dependent on need and at discretion of the provider

• 2016/17 £6,123,536.54
• 2017/18 £5,254,569.96
• 2018/19 £5,417,020.00