The second part of a government-commissioned review of drugs, by Cambridge university professor Dame Carol Black, found that overall funding for drug and alcohol prevention and treatment services has fallen by 17 per cent between from 2014/15 and 2019/20.
The reduction in funding for young people’s specialist substance misuse services was 28 per cent over the same period leading to “rising demand on children’s social care”, it states.
It states that the Department for Health and Social Care should invest an additional £552m over five years on top of the baseline annual expenditure of £680m from the public health grant, “to provide a full range of high-quality drug treatment and recovery services”.
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