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The Guardian have a bit of freelance contributors to the school. Two of them are of direct interest to us. First Bobby Cummines, CEO National Association of Free Reformed offenders. Paper says its approach to communicating with students about crime:

“I Ask who wants to be a drug dealer and they say yes. So I link it and say: we’ve got to send a message to these people so that they have to shoot in the foot?

“I It’s tell them people like them, doing small deals, which are used as an example for the larger guys, so it is more likely to be victims of violent crime than the big guy. And if you can’t, the message is sent within the family. They say: if I have a knife, people won’t to me. But I tell them, well, you knife; don’t I know if you’re going to use it, so I had a gun and shoot you.”

Then Darren Gold of the reach of the team leader of Drugline. Darren is a recovering heroin addict says:

“I Go to school and deliver customized training programs suitable for year 5 to year 13, ” says. “We Basic program around a specific age group, so if you see we’re years, 5 or 6, we don’t talk about heroin and crack, but look at the pressure and the transition and how you might feel left out or uncomfortable.

If it’s older age group, we talk more about illegal drugs and side effects. It’s basically giving them all the information they need from someone who was there, and experienced it…

“They Use hear stories. They get to hear any more stories from real life than from books or listening to their teachers belong to what may happen and what may happen. The fact that they receive from us realism.”

There is also a quotation from the PSHE coordinator in the School of Redbridge, who says:

“Darren Really useful because it provides a real life story, ” she says. “I I think that kids really respond to it and is shocked by the stories Darren’s. Children are asked to all. They’re very interesting to hear what impact the drugs that his experience. He often talks about how he threw drugs.”

DfES guidance in schools is quite clear that children “shocking” isn’t to drug education. In addition, reliable enough that he speaks of external actors, in particular, ex-users:

The involvement of former drug education should be considered cautiously by virtue of their status as a former user.

The QCA in their description of what effective drug education looks like don’t mention trying to “shock” pupils either. Instead they suggest that teachers should be looking to ensure the following:

Knowledge

-of long-term physical and psychological effects of drug, alcohol and tobacco use;

- of short-term effects.

Attitudes

-feedback from school surveys on drug norms;

-correction of the perception of universal drug use;

-consideration of media and social influences that lead to use.

Interpersonal skills

- refusal;

-assertiveness;

-communication;

-safety.

Intrapersonal and interpersonal skills

- building self-esteem;

-coping skills;

-stress reduction techniques;

-goal-setting;

-decision-making/problem-solving.

Delivery

-participatory;

-inclusive;

-structured activity to promote peer interaction;

-practice in drug refusal skills;

-role-plays that are pupil generated;

-sufficient practice time;

-peer modelling of appropriate behaviour;

-supportive comments from the group.

Reality bites | eG weekly | EducationGuardian.co.uk

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I have nothing against don’t schoolchildren were told of the effects of excessive alcohol consumption, assuming that the lessons are fairly and responsibly –, but you can bet it won’t be. Children will be informed in a manner that is likely to do more drinking than less, attractive.

Filed under: alcohol

Alcoholnbsp;Strategy .

The government launched Safe. Sensible. Social.; next steps in the national strategy on alcohol . I’ve skimmed through it to see what might be of interest to us, but warn that it is only the first skim and could be missing pieces.

This strategy says the government will:

increase its focus on minority of drinkers who cause or experience the most harm to themselves, their communities and their families. These are:

-Young people under 18 drink alcohol, many of whom we now know is drinking more than their counterparts did a decade and ago;
-18A € “24-year-old binge drinkers, a minority of them are responsible for most alcohol-related crime and disorder in the night-time economy

They also talk about the harmful drinkers if their drinking can cause damage to others (presumably including children).

Eric Carlin, chairman of the Drug Education Forum, said government € ™ s alcohol policy said:

The government € ™ s focus on young people as part of the alcohol strategy is welcome. But we regret that there is more public consultation on what the strategy says.

We know that many young people are concerned about alcohol and don

Goodenough Drug Strategy Project is an initiative of the London Drug Policy Forum.

I’ve recently became aware of the new Turning Point blog and thought I’d bring to your attention as well.

There are posts about the strategy for alcohol harm reduction and a number of charity campaigns involving in.

enjoyed the view research entrusted to them by the Institute of Alcohol Studies .

Part of the report looks at the effectiveness of policy in reducing harm.