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	<title>Drug Education News &#187; Hidden Harm</title>
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		<title>A new documentary shows how the effects of addiction can lay whole families to waste</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/a-new-documentary-shows-how-the-effects-of-addiction-can-lay-whole-families-to-waste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Observer has a long piece looking at the Channel 4 programme aired last night, Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me&#8230; :
I was bathing Lacey one night and she said, &#8220;Nanny, could Mummy die if she carries on taking drugs and drinking?&#8221; And I said, &#8220;Yes, she could, but we&#8217;re going to work very hard to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1867&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bristol reviews help for addict parents</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/bristol-reviews-help-for-addict-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children &#38; Young People Now report on a piece of work going on in Bristol:
A local authority is to carry out a review of how to improve support for children of drug addicts.
The review, to be carried out by the Safer Bristol partnership, will
consider how best to meet the needs of drug-users and their children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1529&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Call for pregnancy drug abuse stats</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/call-for-pregnancy-drug-abuse-stats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children Now:
 Figures need to be collected on children affected by their mother&#8217;s drug and alcohol abuse during pregnancy, the chair of an adoption charity&#8217;s health advisory group has urged.
Dr Mary Mather told a Parents for Children conference last week that a mother&#8217;s substance abuse could lead to medical problems for children later in life.
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		<title>“Working across children’s and adults services: creating seamless services in the post ECM world”</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/%e2%80%9cworking-across-children%e2%80%99s-and-adults-services-creating-seamless-services-in-the-post-ecm-world%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beverley Hughes talks to the LGA about joining up children&#8217;s and adult services:

The extent to which effective joint working actually happens is a crucial determinant of the wellbeing of some of our most vulnerable children, young people and their families. It has a significant impact on how effectively children are safeguarded from the risk of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=623&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adult Drug Problems, Children&#8217;s Needs</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/adult-drug-problems-childrens-needs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NCB&#8217;s new toolkit, Adult Drug Problems, Children&#8217;s Needs: Assessing the Impact of Parental Drug Use, was developed with funding from the Department of Health, and aims to help social workers and other practitioners work together to protect children.
Children Now
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		<title>Suffer not &#8230;the little children</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/suffer-not-the-little-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 11:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Voice has a piece about children&#8217;s social care and how BME communities are served.  It includes the following quote from Cathy Ashley, chief executive of the Family Rights Group, which seems pertinent to thinking about Hidden Harm and the agenda for schools and other services that may be noticing problems within families:
&#8220;Many families who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=582&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feed family, do homework</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/feed-family-do-homework/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian looks at the role&#8217;s that young carers take &#8211; sometimes as a result of parental drug or alcohol problems &#8211; and the way one school has responded:
Their [young carers] valuable contribution is also highlighted in assemblies and PSHE lessons. When the initiative started, there were just four pupils in the school known to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=535&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Things are good now&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/02/26/things-are-good-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian has a piece about Addaction which touches on the issues thrown up by Hidden Harm:

Rachel&#8217;s life imploded eight years ago when she was introduced to heroin as a way of dealing with some of the particularly nasty problems life was throwing at her. &#8220;Everything seemed to go away when I used it,&#8221; she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=444&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Substance misuse: English policy fails to protect young</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/substance-misuse-english-policy-fails-to-protect-young/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young People Now&#8217;s take on the ACMD report on the progress being made on Hidden Harm:
England is lagging behind the rest of the UK when it comes to protecting young people whose parents misuse drugs, according to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
The council last week reported on how local authorities and services [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=430&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Harm 3 Years On</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/hidden-harm-3-years-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ACMD have produced a report looking at what has changed as a result of their report Hidden Harm.
Community Care covers the subject saying:
The Advisory Council said today that its Hidden Harm report in 2003 had led to greater acknowledgement of the problems faced by children of parents who abuse drugs and alcohol and increased [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=427&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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