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Question reference: S6W-29771

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 27 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29786 by Jenni Minto on 25 September 2024, whether it will commit to providing a detailed breakdown of what the drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation programme, for which it provides funding, entails.

There are three key parts to our national approach to achieving improvements in treatment options and recovery pathways for residential rehabilitation; Investing in a significant increase in the capacity of residential rehabilitation services; Improving pathways into, through and out of rehabilitation services, in particular for those with multiple complex needs; Developing a standardised approach to commissioning residential rehabilitation services.

On these three pillars, over £38m has been made available through two rounds of the Residential Rehabilitation Rapid Capacity Programme to increase residential rehab capacity across Scotland. We have commissioned Healthcare Improvement Scotland to work with Alcohol and Drug Partnerships to aid the development of clear pathways into through and out of residential rehabilitation. Finally, as result of extensive stakeholder engagement we commissioned Scotland Excel to establish a National Commissioning Framework which was launched in April this year which seeks to standardise and streamline commissioning of RR placements.

We have commissioned Public Health Scotland to undertake an evaluation, which will consider all the interventions made as part the RR programme.

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