Current status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 4 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how it is working to increase awareness of rehabilitation services among women.
The provision and improvement of residential rehabilitation services for women and those with childcare responsibilities is one of the key focuses of the Scottish Government’s National Mission to improve and save lives impacted by substance use.
We have made a combined £13.5 million available to support the creation of three new rehabilitation services – Phoenix Futures’ Harper House family service in Ayrshire and Aberlour Childcare Trust’s two mother and child recovery housesin Dundee and Falkirk – which are specifically designed to support women through recovery from both drug and alcohol use.
Both organisations have been working to embed their services into residential rehabilitation referral pathways across the country through engagement with key partners; including Alcohol and Drugs Partnerships, social work, perinatal and wider harm reduction services.
The Scottish Government has also worked to increase awareness of the services through our national residential rehabilitation service directory – rehab.scot – which was launched in August. The site provides a nationwide list of residential rehabilitation providers for the first time, empowering individuals and their loved ones to learn about and access quality residential rehabilitation and identify the best service to support them.