Addaction redundancy & termination payments trebled in 2018/19

According to the drug and alcohol agency’s latest accounts, staff redundancy & termination payments rose to £823,563 this year, salaries and wages fell from £40.5million to £37.2million and staff numbers fell from 1,569 to 1,444. Addaction was the subject of industrial action recently – but that still leaves a large organisation with an income of £67.2million.