The government has published its 2025-26 drug, alcohol and recovery grant funding for local authorities. The allocations will see £310m go to councils to ‘build on their vital work of improving outcomes for people who need treatment and recovery support’ said public health minister Ashley Dalton in a written statement.
The grants are in line with the recommendations from Dame Carol Black’s Independent review of drugs, the government states, and build on the public health grant allocations published earlier this year.
A number of grants that were previously used to support drug and alcohol treatment – the inpatient detoxification, housing support, rough sleeping drug and alcohol treatment and supplemental substance misuse and recovery grants – have this year been consolidated into a single grant, the drug and alcohol treatment and recovery improvement grant (DATRIG). Commissioning of inpatient detox will continue to be organised through regional or subregional consortiums, the government adds.
Full breakdown of funding allocations by council available here