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Alcohol Education
Clare Barrowman , Inclusion Consultant (risk-taking)
Quality and Improvement
[email protected]
Tel: 01609 536808
Mobile: 07969 103741
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Alcohol Quiz
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Nationally what % of 11 year olds have drunk
a ‘whole’ alcoholic drink in 2008?
In North Yorkshire what % of primary school
aged children have had an alcoholic drink in
the last week in 2008?
In North Yorkshire what % of primary school
aged children report they drink alcohol
without their parents knowing at least
sometimes?
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Alcohol Quiz cont…..
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Nationally what % of 15 year olds have drunk
a ‘whole’ alcoholic drink in 2008?
In North Yorkshire what % of secondary aged
pupils have had at least one alcoholic drink in
the week before the survey?
What % of the young people in North
Yorkshire who drank the week before the
survey drank over the advised weekly limits
for adult females (14 units)?
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Alcohol quiz cont……….
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Nationally what is the mean alcohol
consumption in the last week by 14 and 15
year olds who have drunk alcohol?
In North Yorkshire what % of Year 10 pupils
found their alcohol education at school ‘quite
useful’ or ‘very useful’?
Year 10 pupils in North Yorkshire who have
had sex what % have ever taken risks with
sex (pregnancy or infection) after drinking
alcohol ?
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What should
Alcohol Education
be trying to
achieve?
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The stated aim of drug and alcohol
education:
‘provide opportunities for pupils to develop their
knowledge, skills, attitudes and understanding
about drugs and appreciate the benefits of a
healthy lifestyle, relating this to their own and
other’s actions’
This aim does not explicitly relate to
an impact on behaviour
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Context
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Every Child Matters
The Children’s Plan: Building Brighter Future (DCSF
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2008)
DCSF (2009) School’s role in promoting pupil well-
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being
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DCSF/Ofsted (2009) Indicators of a school’s contribution
to well-being
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DCSF and DH (2009) Healthy Lives, Brighter Future. The
strategy for children and young people’s health
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Supporting National documents
• Drug and Alcohol Review and the
Government’s response to the review (2008)
• Personal, Social, Health, Education nonstatutory curriculum (PSHE) (proposal to make it statutory
from 2011)
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Youth Alcohol Action Plan
National Healthy Schools Programme
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PSHE curriculum
Personal wellbeing
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Personal identities
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Healthy lifestyles
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Risk
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Relationships
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Diversity
Personal wellbeing
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Critical reflection
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Decision-making and
managing risk
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Developing
relationships and
working with others
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North Yorkshire Support
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Children and Young People’s Plan
Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire
Risk-Taking Guidance for Schools
PSHE Continuing Professional Development
Programme
My role and three Integrated Youth Support
workers (risky-behaviours)
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Effective Alcohol Education
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Are developmentally appropriate to the age, maturity and capability of the target
group or individuals
A more holistic approach focusing on healthy lifestyles and risk-taking
behaviours
Learning skills that will enhance their well-being rather than simply avoiding risk
Need knowledge but also the skills to manage social pressures
Have a broad skills base that help people think more critically about alcohol and
make better, more-informed decisions
Some experience of risk is essential for healthy development
Normative Education approach- sustaining the choices of the majority of young
people who do not drink irresponsibility
Need confident and trained teachers and supporting partner agencies to use
interactive teaching and learning techniques
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Effective Alcohol Education
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To ensure young people get their entitlement to alcohol education within the
PSHE curriculum suspended timetable days alone are not sufficient –there
needs to be planned PSHE lessons
Social influences approach which focuses on the more immediate
consequences for themselves, particularly loss of face with friends and peers or
negative self-image rather than a focus on long-term implications for their health
or consequences for others.
Increase access to harm minimisation information
Make informed choices based on real-life experiences (but caution using exalcoholics/ offenders)
Include and embrace other components such as parents/carers, the wider
community, support agencies, other relevant professionals, e.g. police/health
professionals etc
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The influence of Parents
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Nationally Young People’s drinking tends to reflect what they
believed their parents thought
Nationally 80% of young people who said their parents would
not like them to drink had never drunk alcohol, compared with
24% of young people who thought their parents did not mind
them drinking within limits
Parents are the single biggest influence on young people
Parent – child communication about alcohol and alcohol use is
associated with reduce risk of early on-set use
Parents want more guidance on how to educate their children
about alcohol
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School Based Projects
Effectively using data to identify the children and young people’s
needs
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Effective interactive teaching and learning
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Staff training to support the work
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Displays within the school support the work and allow parents to
see the work their children have been doing
Secondary school project:
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Young people passing on key messages about alcohol to other
young people
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A proposal that the young people pass on their key messages
about alcohol to parents in the community at a planned event
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Primary School Project
The Lost Bag
Drug, Alcohol and Tobacco
Education
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The Lost Bag
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What do you think was in the bag?
Who do you think lost it?
What do you think the person was going to do with
the bag?
What did the person finding the bag do?
What would you have done if you had found it?
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Reference to Medicines
(nurse)
Stereotype17
Year 2
Year 3
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Year 4
Year 6
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Where the children had got the information from
Year 2 –Lost Bag
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Overheard conversations
Television
Newspapers
Older Siblings
Peers
Observation
Role models
Experience
Parental role models
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Gaps and Misunderstandings
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All Drugs are BAD
The stereotypical ‘DrugUser’
Alcohol
Tobacco
Solvents
Medicines
Y1
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Baseline Assessment & Introduction to Drug
Education
What Goes Into
Our Bodies?
What do we
have NO choice
about?
What do we
HAVE choices
about?
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Y6 Drug Education
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JUST
SAY
KNOW !
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What the Y6’s found out
I found out some very important
facts about drugs…all medicines,
solvents, alcohol & tobacco can be
harmful if misused. People are put
under peer pressure to have drugs or
smoke and some people think its cool.
I have found out some very
important facts because before we
started the lesson my mum went
through drugs the night before
and we talked about the lesson
when I got home.
I know that all drugs are harmful
if they are not used right. Alcohol,
tobacco, medicines, solvents are all
DRUGS! SAY KNOW NOW
I have found out some very important
facts about drugs. Like alcohol is a
drug. I did not know that solvents can
kill you in a flash. I did not know that
medicines can be harmful. I do now.
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Secondary School Project
Alcohol Awareness Project
Year 8 pupils
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Secondary School
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Identified an issue around alcohol from the Health Related
Behaviour Questionnaire and staff’s own knowledge of the
pupils
The focus for the initial stage of the project has been on Year 8
pupils
20 pupils took part in the half day workshop. Some were
targeted but the group were mixed ability
Support from the school nurse during the workshop but also for
pupils to access any further information, advice and support via
the school nurse drop-in
Pre and post questionnaire and evaluation was completed with
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the pupils
Aims of the Alcohol Workshop
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Develop a group ethos
Increase knowledge and understanding of drink
strengths and units
Discuss and understand the reasons for young
people choosing to drink or not drink alcohol
Increased awareness of young peoples drinking, drug
taking and smoking behaviour
Started to discuss key messages that could be
shared with other young people (any maybe parents)
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around alcohol
21% reduction in the
number of students who
would drink if offered
one.
15% of pupils originally
said they would
encourage others to
drink. Questionnaire 2
indicated 100% would
not encourage others
to drink. Hopefully a
change in thinking.
What the Yr8’s found out
Be careful about
how much you
drink. You could do
some thing you’ll
regret later
How far
your limits
are.
About units and
the way it can
affect you.
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Work in the Harrogate Area
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IYS (risky-behaviours) support
Peer Education Project
Parents drug and alcohol awareness work
Enhanced Healthy Schools Model
Training for schools and partner agencies
Developing and disseminating a teaching and
learning resource focusing on risk-taking behaviours
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Taking A Chance-Risk-Taking
Training
There is a programme of multi-agency training to support the roll
out of the guidance:
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17 November 2009 Pavilions of Harrogate course code
HE.009.01.CT
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09 December 2009 Parsonage Hotel, Escrick- course code
HE.009.02.PE
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18th March 2010 - Downe Arms Hotel, Wykeham – course code
HE.009.03.DD
To apply for the course log onto www.n-yorks.net under useful tools go to
Training then click on training programme and type in the course code.
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