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		<title>Governments Must Focus On Price, Availability And Affordability To Tackle Alcohol Misuse, Not Just Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lancet has an editorial following the CMO&#8217;s recently published draft guidance.
They argue that education and public health campaigns are unlikely to be effective messures on their own:
Certainly, it is desirable to delay the onset age of drinking. US experience showed that raising the minimum legal drinking age to 21 years (with minimum enforcement) substantially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2132&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Alcohol Action Plan Presentation</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/youth-alcohol-action-plan-presentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been sent the following presentation on the Youth Alcohol Action Plan by Matthew Scott, which you may find useful.

Matthew also points out there have been changes to the ECM website and have added a feature where you can sign up for policy updates.
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		<title>Ed Balls on the Youth Alcohol Action Plan</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/ed-balls-on-the-youth-alcohol-action-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed this video when it came out, but having found it you might be interested in what the Secretary of State had to say on launching the action plan earlier this year.

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		<title>Safe, Sensible, Social – consultation on further action</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/safe-sensible-social-%e2%80%93-consultation-on-further-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Health are consulting on the next steps in the alcohol strategy.
The relevant questions to us, or so it seems to me, are:

Do you think there is enough advice available for those who want to drink less? What other kinds of help are needed and who should provide them?
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		<title>e-Consultation &#8211; Youth Alcohol Action Plan</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/e-consultation-youth-alcohol-action-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been reminded that the DCSF e-Consultation on the Youth Alcohol Action Plan closes on Monday.
If you have views on the plan &#8211; and I&#8217;ve heard some people say they think its good and some who are much more critical &#8211; then now&#8217;s your chance to say so directly to the government.
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		<title>Youth Alcohol Action Plan</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/youth-alcohol-action-plan-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zoe Williams writing in The Guardian doesn&#8217;t seem to be a big fan of the Youth Alcohol Action Plan:
This week saw the publication of the government&#8217;s youth alcohol action plan. Alan Johnson, the health secretary, declaimed incisively &#8220;I&#8217;ve got an eight-year-old and I wouldn&#8217;t consider giving them alcohol,&#8221; and Ed Balls orated firmly: &#8220;Nothing is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1357&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth Alcohol Action Plan</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/youth-alcohol-action-plan-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So we&#8217;ve heard and seen what the media coverage has been but what does the plan actually say.
In describing the actions they&#8217;ve taken around young people&#8217;s drinking they say:
there has been little focus on how to influence the decisions young people and parents make about alcohol and drinking in the home. While alcohol education in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1349&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tough talk on underage drinking</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/tough-talk-on-underage-drinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Channel 4
Young and drunk means trouble according to the government. Research suggests teenagers who binge-drink are twice as likely to commit a crime than those who don&#8217;t. So the government is getting tough with those who do &#8211; and their parents.
The Youth Alcohol Action Plan has been drawn up by three government departments. It includes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1341&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Young People and Alcohol</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/young-people-and-alcohol-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary:
There is alcohol education in schools, but we need to make sure this is as effective as possible in alerting children to the dangers of drinking.
We have now reached a worrying tipping point &#8211; where more 13 year olds have drunk alcohol than have not.
This is clearly a cause for concern.
Last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1016&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home Secretary&#8217;s Alcohol Briefing</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/home-secretarys-alcohol-briefing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just returned from a briefing the Home Secretary has given on the government&#8217;s alcohol policy.
As trailed in the media she announced that should current law not be sufficient she would legislate to allow the police to confiscate the alcohol of those young people under the age of 18  drinking in public.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1011&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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