Children as young as four are being referred to specialist drug and alcohol treatment services in the UK. The Telegraph reports that freedom of information requests by the Press Association found that children as young as four had been referred by education and children's services to alcohol and drug specialists in South Ayrshire. Elsewhere, eight-year-olds had been referred to services in Waltham Forest while nine-year-olds had been referred in Herefordshire, Liverpool, Oxfordshire, Rutland, the Scottish Borders and West Berkshire.
The independent trust set up to run Doncaster Council’s children’s services department will launch on 1 October, a month behind schedule. The Doncaster Star reports that the council’s cabinet will hear today that the services earmarked to transfer to the trust include family support teams, safeguarding and child protection, social care, fostering and adoption, children’s residential units, the youth offending service and youth services.
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