Lack of residential substance misuse treatment for under 18
Department of Health and Social Care received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 23 Mar 2023 and 8 May 2024.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 1 specific action.
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“The search for suitable accommodation (in this instance for a homeless 16 year old Child in Need) did not extend beyond the County boundary.The lack of any residential substance misuse treatment facilities for children and young persons under the age of 18.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department of Health and Social Care responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The government recognises that there is a need to improve specialist community drug and alcohol services for children and young people. We hope that the £532million of supplemental funding that we are investing in the delivery of the drug strategy will allow local authorities to meet the needs of residents that have substance misuse needs - including children and young people.”
- 1 year 2 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.95 · higha different coroner
“There are no residential substance misuse treatment facilities for children and young persons under the age of 18 in England.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:residentialsubstancemisusetreatmentfacilitieschildren
Department of Health and Social Care responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2023 → 2024Oliver Barnett1 year 2 months after Benjamin Nelson-Roux · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.95 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.95 · highBoth reports identify the complete absence of residential substance‑misuse treatment facilities for children and young people under 18. This gap forces reliance on hospital care and community support, increasing relapse and overdose risks.
Benjamin Nelson-Roux · 23 Mar 2023
“The search for suitable accommodation (in this instance for a homeless 16 year old Child in Need) did not extend beyond the County boundary.The lack of any residential substance misuse treatment facilities for children and young persons under the age of 18.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Oliver Barnett · 8 May 2024
“There are no residential substance misuse treatment facilities for children and young persons under the age of 18 in England.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action
“The government recognises that there is a need to improve specialist community drug and alcohol services for children and young people. We hope that the £532million of supplemental funding that we are investing in the delivery of the drug strategy will allow local authorities to meet the needs of residents that have substance misuse needs - including children and young people.”
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Department of Health and Social Care at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 → 2024 | 0.92 | 0.85 | Identical · 0.95 | different |
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