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DRUGS
IN SCOTLAND: MEETING THE CHALLENGE |
FUNDING |
| 39. The Scottish Office should assess the
usefulness of the information already provided by local authorities, and assess what
additional information may be required on an annual basis, to provide a full picture of
local authority expenditure on drug misuse services in Scotland (para 6.7). |
| 40. Earmarked funding to health boards for
the provision of services for drug misusers - that is both drug services programmes and
the drugs element of HIV/AIDS programmes - should continue for the foreseeable future
(para 6.8). |
| 41. The Scottish Office should explore the
possibility of setting an indicative spending level for local authority drug misuse
services within grant-aided expenditure (para 6.9). If this proves possible, The Scottish
Office should consider the scope for transferring the funding of voluntary sector projects
with a strong social care element from health boards to social work departments (para
6.10). |
| 42. As far as possible, contracts with the
non-statutory sector to provide drug misuse services should be drawn up to cover
reasonable periods of time (say 3 to 4 years) to provide conditions of financial stability
within which services can be developed (para 6.11). |
| 43. All applications for the funding of
drugs-related projects under the Urban Programme should require to be endorsed by the area
Drug Action Team. DATs should play a proactive part in developing such proposals (para
6.12). |
