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		<title>Children, Schools and Families Committee Report on the National Curriculum</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/children-schools-and-families-committee-report-on-the-national-curriculum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a fair bit of media interest in the report into the national curriculum produced by the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, largely because they make a case for slimming down the curriculum and are critical of what they see as an overly controlling centre in the form of the DCSF.
The report says:
We take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2444&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson slams &#8216;ineffective&#8217; cannabis action</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/jackson-slams-ineffective-cannabis-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ITN are reporting on evidence that the American politician and civil rights leader, Jesse Jackson, has been giving to the home affairs select committee in Parliament.
Rev Jackson is reported as suggesting that cannabis enforcement has a history of being one eyed, focusing on those from poorer socio-economic groups and ignoring what happens in universities.&#160; Asked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2394&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Questions</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/parliamentary-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Walker, the Conservative MP for Broxbourne, has put down a couple of questions to the DCSF.  On drug testing in schools he asks:
what support is available from his Department to schools which wish to introduce voluntary drug testing; and if he will make a statement.
In reply Sarah McCarthy-Fry says:
The Department&#8217;s guidance, Drugs: Guidance for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2342&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Question &#8211; Schools: Health Education</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/parliamentary-question-schools-health-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Crausby MP, the Labour MP for Bolton North East, asks what steps the DCSF:
is taking to inform school children of the adverse effects of (a) smoking and (b) alcohol abuse.
The Minister, Sarah McCarthy-Fry, says: 
Currently all schools should teach pupils about the effects of smoking and alcohol abuse, as part of drug education, through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2246&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Drug Awareness</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/anti-drug-awareness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graham Allen speaking in a debate in Parliament the other day:
As part of Nottingham&#8217;s early intervention initiative, our city is leading the way on an anti-drug and alcohol education programme with a £750,000 programme, Drug Aware, that will reach every young person in our city. For about the cost of a year&#8217;s intensive treatment for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1772&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Answer &#8211; PSHE and drug education</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/parliamentary-answer-pshe-and-drug-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of a very long response to a set of questions largely about human rights issues, Justice Minister Lord Hunt says:
In the final part of this Question, Lord Laird asked about the access of children to information on social and health issues. The Government are committed to the provision of Personal, Social, Health Education [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1766&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Written Answers</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/parliamentary-written-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hansard carries a couple of questions to the Home Office (and their answers) that may be of interest.  First up one which is pretty broad:
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent steps the Government has taken to reduce levels of illegal drug consumption.
Mr. Coaker: In February, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1642&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education and Skills Bill</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/education-and-skills-bill-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Lords have been debating the Education and Skills Bill.
One of the amendments (asking for PSHE to be made statutory) will be of particular interest to readers of this blog and it&#8217;s on this that I&#8217;ll focus.
Baroness Garden (Liberal Democrat) moved the amendment and said:
For PSHE to become a statutory part of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1499&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PQ &#8211; Domestic Violence: Curriculum</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/pq-domestic-violence-curriculum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madeline Moon, the MP for Bridgend, has asked a Parliamentary Question on how domestic violence is managed in the national curriculum:
Mrs. Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on the treatment of domestic violence issues within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1478&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debate on the Children&#8217;s Plan</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/debate-on-the-childrens-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/debate-on-the-childrens-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Lords held a debate on the Children&#8217;s Plan yesterday, Hansard has the full thing, but here are a few snippets.
Barroness Massey:
Why should it take years to get floodlighting permission or permission to set up a club or build changing facilities or have nets for cricket? This is not my noble friend the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=1274&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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