Alcohol Education

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Alcohol Education

• Clare Barrowman , Inclusion Consultant
  (risk-taking)
• Quality and Improvement
• Clare.barrowman_at_northyorks.gov.uk
• Tel [phone]
• Mobile [phone]

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Alcohol Quiz

• 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..

• 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.

• 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
• others actions
• This aim does not explicitly relate to
• an impact on behaviour

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Context

• Every Child Matters
• The Childrens Plan Building Brighter Future
  (DCSF 2008)
• DCSF (2009) Schools role in promoting pupil
  well-being
• DCSF/Ofsted (2009) Indicators of a schools
  contribution to well-being
• DCSF and DH (2009) Healthy Lives, Brighter
  Future. The strategy for children and young
  peoples health

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Supporting National documents

• Drug and Alcohol Review and the Governments
  response to the review (2008)
• Personal, Social, Health, Education non-statutory
  curriculum (PSHE) (proposal to make it statutory
  from 2011)
• Youth Alcohol Action Plan
• National Healthy Schools Programme

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PSHE curriculum

• Personal wellbeing
• Personal identities
• Healthy lifestyles
• Risk
• Relationships
• Diversity

• Personal wellbeing
• Critical reflection
• Decision-making and managing risk
• Developing relationships and working with others

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North Yorkshire Support

• Children and Young Peoples 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

• 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

• 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 ex-alcoholics/
  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

• Nationally Young Peoples 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 peoples needs
• Effective interactive teaching and learning
• Staff training to support the work
• Displays within the school support the work and
  allow parents to see the work their children have
  been doing
• Secondary school project
• Young people passing on key messages about
  alcohol to other young people
• 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

• 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)
Stereotype
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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

• Overheard conversations
• Television
• Newspapers
• Older Siblings
• Peers
• Observation
• Role models
• Experience

Parental role models
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Gaps and Misunderstandings

• All Drugs are BAD
• The stereotypical Drug-User
• 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 Y6s found out
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 found out some very important facts about
drugsall 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 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

• Identified an issue around alcohol from the
  Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire and
  staffs 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 the pupils

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Aims of the Alcohol Workshop

• 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) around alcohol

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What the Yr8s found out
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.
21 reduction in the number of students who would
drink if offered one.
How far your limits are.
Be careful about how much you drink. You could do
some thing youll regret later
About units and the way it can affect you.
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Work in the Harrogate Area

• 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
• 17 November 2009 Pavilions of Harrogate course
  code HE.009.01.CT
• 09 December 2009 Parsonage Hotel, Escrick- course
  code HE.009.02.PE
• 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.