FOI release

Spend on alcohol treatment

Case reference FOI2022/00013

Published 31 January 2022

Request

1) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide an estimate for the number of referrals made to alcohol treatment services in your local authority area for the following financial years? a) 2018/19 b) 2019/20 c) 2020/21

2) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide the outturn data for budget spent on drug and alcohol treatment services in your local authority area for the following financial years? a) 2018/19 b) 2019/20 c) 2020/21

3) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide me with an estimate for the amount your local authority area is forecast to spend on drug and alcohol treatment services in the following financial years? a) 2020/21 b) 2021/22

4) Does the Local Authority have a strategy in place to support children of alcoholics?

Response

1) Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide an estimate for the number of referrals made to alcohol treatment services in your local authority area for the following financial years? a) 2018/19 b) 2019/20 c) 2020/21

The number of referrals made to alcohol treatment services are not captured. Data is available for the number of treatment episodes beginning in each of these financial years but this will be a sub-group of all referrals and so would not capture precisely the information you have requested.

2. Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide the outturn data for budget spent on drug and alcohol treatment services in your local authority area for the following financial years? a) 2018/19 b) 2019/20 c) 2020/21

2018/19 - £1,552,635.00

2019/20 - £1,513,507.21

2020/21 - £1,508,419.08

3. Can the Local Authority's Director of Public Health provide me with an estimate for the amount your local authority area is forecast to spend on drug and alcohol treatment services in the following financial years? a) 2020/21 b) 2021/22

2020/21 - £1,508,419.08

2021/22 - £1,876,608.92

4. Does the Local Authority have a strategy in place to support children of alcoholics?

No current strategy is in place.

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