Alcohol and Young People

This project attempts to measure the level of need of young people within Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham City Council Area 7 in relation to school exclusions and alcohol. Data has been gathered from questionnaires completed by professionals working closely with this group of young people, mainly Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) Co-ordinators within schools in both the above given areas.

The report concludes that, whilst the majority of young people may make a successful transition into adulthood and experience few alcohol related problems there is another, more worrying, group of young people who present as vulnerable and who are highly susceptible to experiencing problems related to high alcohol usage.

Lack of parental support, peer pressure and a lack of understanding from school staff of alcohol problems generally, all appear to result in this group of people using alcohol to dangerous degrees both within school and their wider communities.

In addition, the report concludes that there is scope for consideration of how those people working closely with school age children can effectively identify alcohol problems and further, how schools can effectively record absences to reflect the real level of need in terms of young people who are using alcohol. Furthermore, the report identifies that there is a need to develop a countywide strategy to enable appropriate alcohol agencies to develop a structured approach to implement within schools throughout the City and County of Nottinghamshire.

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