The following table showsthe number of new clients aged less than 16 years, who have accessed any drugtreatment and rehabilitation services for the last 10 years, broken down bylocal authority area.During this period, noclients under the age of 16 came into services specifically described as “residentialrehabilitation”.It is not possible to saywhy there were increased numbers reporting to services from 2003-4 onwards, butthe reasons are likely to involve a combination of an increased focus on theimportance of completing returns to the national database, as a result of themessage that future funding may be linked to performance; increased efforts tofollow up drops in returns from agencies and to train agencies in the correctcompletion of forms, and more young people coming into treatment.NewIndividual Patients-Clients Aged Less than 16 Years Old, Reporting to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database by Local Authority Area, 1995-2005(yearsending 31 March) Council Area of Residence 1995- 96 1996- 97 1997- 98 1998- 99 1999- 2000 2000- 01 2001- 02 2002- 03 2003- 04 2004- 05 Aberdeen City 13 9 11 1 9 4 4 7 6 2 Aberdeenshire 5 2 4 4 1 4 2 18 22 16 Angus 4 1 9 2 - 5 6 1 1 4 Argyll and Bute 4 - 1 1 - 2 - - 4 3 East Ayrshire - - - - 8 7 12 3 1 1 North Ayrshire - 2 - 1 33 10 16 13 5 2 South Ayrshire 2 - 1 - - 2 4 4 4 - Borders - - - - - - - 1 18 31 Clackmannanshire 1 - - 1 1 - - - 2 - Dumfries and Galloway - - - - 1 1 1 13 8 20 Dunbartonshire East 2 1 1 1 - - - - 2 - Dunbartonshire West 3 3 4 13 13 5 3 1 14 20 Dundee City 1 3 2 5 2 4 15 10 8 10 City of Edinburgh 4 8 3 7 7 8 15 31 19 17 Falkirk 1 2 - 1 3 3 4 8 17 8 Fife 7 13 10 9 20 26 51 40 70 88 City of Glasgow 26 27 17 28 23 53 12 11 52 19 Highland - - - - - - - 6 18 36 Inverclyde 5 10 3 7 - 7 4 3 - 18 North Lanarkshire 12 2 10 7 3 6 5 5 16 46 South Lanarkshire 6 3 - 2 - 1 2 8 24 10 East Lothain 3 2 7 2 7 3 3 3 1 - West Lothian 3 2 5 3 3 - 14 28 52 30 Midlothian 5 5 4 1 7 4 10 - 1 6 Moray 5 3 - - - 2 - 1 - - Orkney Islands - - - - - - - - 2 - Perth and Kinross 1 2 1 - - 2 7 5 4 - Renfrewshire 10 7 13 21 13 16 31 12 14 27 East Renfrewshire 1 - - 3 2 1 1 - - - Stirling 2 - 1 - - - 12 14 26 5 *Scotland 124 106 107 118 156 175 234 245 411 418 Note: *In some cases, the Scotlandtotal is marginally lower than the aggregated local figures because some individualshave presented to services in more than one council area.