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...