The BBC report on an initiative by Surrey Police to work in schools:
In Surrey, a “battle bus” has been touring schools to raise drugs awareness among students.It is part of Surrey Police’s Drugs Destroy Communities campaign, and some of the children who board the bus are not yet even teenagers.
At Ash Technology College in Ashford, 150 pupils aged 12 and 13 visited it. [more]
The initative gets support from a mother in Kent:
A woman who has spent 12 years helping three daughters fight heroin dependency said when she first discovered their addictions she thought they would die.Theresa Dodd said she only found people could get off drugs at all when she went, in desperation, to a school talk.
Now the Kent mother-of-four is supporting a Surrey Police campaign to take anti-drugs messages to pupils. [more]
Teachers should always maintain responsibility for the overall drug education programme. External contributors should not be used as substitute teachers, nor should they constitute the entirety of a school’s drug education programme. When working directly with pupils they should add a dimension to the drug education programme that the teacher alone cannot deliver.
ACPO are currently developing guidance for the police service on how they should work with schools on drug education and drug incidents. We understand this will be published in the near future.
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