Purpose

The Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery
Improvement Grant (DATRIG) consolidates a number of drug related
grants. Grant allocations are received and spent in line with grant
conditions.

Sandwell’s indicative allocated Drug and Alcohol Treatment
and Recovery Improvement Grant (DATRIG) amount for the 2026/27
period is £1,140,170* for substance misuse treatment and
recovery and £171,312*for Individual Placement and Support
(IPS).
*Indicative amount still subject to Department of Health and Social
Care (DHSC) and Treasury approvals and as such final allocation
could vary.
The funding and must be spent inline with grant conditions. .

The funding must be spent on interventions that aim to achieve the
Drug Strategy ambition to reduce drug and alcohol related deaths
and harms and is to be additional to existing Public Health grant
expenditure on substance misuse treatment services The Strategy
therefore requires that local areas rebuild and reinvest into local
support systems towards “a world class drug treatment and
recovery system” Monies can only be spent on provisions that
fit within OHIDs menu of interventions.