Children and Young People

Clinical Guidance

• Alcohol-use disorders - preventing the development of hazardous and harmful drinking
  This National Institute for Health and Clincial Excellence (NICE) guidance addresses alcohol-related problems among people aged 10 years and older. The guidance identifies how policies on alcohol pricing,...
• Alcohol-use disorders: physical complications
  This National Institute for Health and Clincial Excellence (NICE) guidance covers the care of adults and young people (aged 10 years and older) who have any of the following physical health problems...
• Alcohol use disorders: diagnosis, assessment and management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence
  Clinical guideline on evidence-based advice on the diagnosis, assessment and management of harmful drinking and alcohol dependence in adults and in young people aged 10-17 years.

Children Young People and Alcohol

• Children Young People and Alcohol - Jan 2010
  Final report on the consultation and research into young people and alcohol.
• Guidance on the consumption of alcohol by children and young people. A report by the Chief Medical Officer
  Section 2: Nature and extent of the problem provides an overview of drinking patterns and some of their consequences in young people in the UK. Section 3: Guidance for the consumption of alcohol by...
• Consultation on Children Young People and Alcohol- Summary of Responses
  This report provides a summary to the DCSF's recent consultation launched as aprt of the youth alcohol action plan. The summary provides details of the responses and largely supports the recommendations...
• Use of Alcohol among Children and Young People: Final Report (DCSF and Define Research & Insight 2008)
  Research Report detailing the findings of the qualitative research carried out by Define(in 2008) which aims to provide insights into the influences and motivations for alcohol consumption in young pe...
• Pre-teens learning about alcohol - drinking and family contexts
  Childhood experiences are crucial to forming future drinking habits. Much emphasis has been placed on understanding the impact of problem drinking within the family, yet much less is known about how...
• Swept under the carpet: children affected by parental alcohol misuse
  A joint report from Alcohol Concern and the Children's Society was released for Alcohol Awareness Week 2010. The report identifies: An estimated 2.6 million children live with a parent whose drinking...
• Right time, right place: alcohol-harm reduction strategies with children and young people
  This report was released as part of Alcohol Awareness Week and estimates that the cost to health and ambulance services due to underage alcohol consumption is in the region of £19 million per annum....

Youth Treatment Services

The National Treatment Agency's Report on specialist substance misuse services provides the most comprehensive picture of drug and alcohol treatment for young people in England.

• NTA Young Peoples Report
  Reliable statistics on young people under 18 who receive specialist support for drug and alcohol misuse have been scarce. To address this, the National Treatment Agency (NTA) started recording data in...

Alcohol Industry and Marketing

• Under the Influence -The damaging effect of alcohol marketing on Young People
  This report looks at the health burden of alcohol consumption and how this has been driven by marketing campaigns with the UK alcohol industry spending approximately £800m annually. It looks at the...

Young people and news media

As part of a pilot study into methods for addressing these questions, newspaper and television coverage of alcohol-related stories were analysed to identify how those stories were contextualised, which sources were quoted andwhat images accompanied alcohol-related news stories.

• Young people, alcohol and the news
  There is only limited research into either how news reporting frames stories about or whether this reflects the experiences of young drinkers. As part of a pilot study into methods for addressing these...

Young people learning about alcohol

What influences how children and young people behave towards alcohol? Two linked research reviews examine how young people acquire their knowledge, attitudes, expectations and intentions about alcohol and what interventions work best to prevent excessive use of alcohol.

• Children, young people and alcohol: how they learn and how to prevent excessive use
  What influences how children and young people behave towards alcohol? Two linked research reviews examine how young people acquire their knowledge, attitudes, expectations and intentions about alcohol...
• Do as I say or Do as I do - Parenting, Family Life and Alcohol Consumption
  Research presentation with the objectives; to map parents'/carers' attitudes towards the role of alcohol within the family, to examine families' own alcohol practices' to understand how these attitudes...
• Alcohol consumption and family life
  This study examined how parents teach young children (aged 5 to 12) about alcohol. It explored parental attitudes towards alcohol, and family drinking practices, using a national survey and in-depth...
• Joint Guidance on Development of Local Protocols between Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services and Local Safeguarding and Family Services
  Joint guidance on the development of local protocols bewteen Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services and Local Safeguarding and Family Services. It is intended to help commissioners and providers to meet...

Resources

• Alcohol and Young People - a toolkit
  This toolkit provides guidance on supporting young people who are experiencing, or at risk of, alcohol related harm. It has a particular focus on young people in the looked after system and those with...
• Alcohol Toolkit for Young People Presentation - South West
  Presentation outlining the process, purpose and results of the development of the toolkit. The toolkit itself can be accessed here
• Talk About Alcohol
  Lesson plans, games and quizzes for 11 - 16 year olds, their parents and teachers. Complemented by booklets for parents and older teenagers and a DVD of lesson plans, short films, a word search, quiz...

Other Reports

• Measuring alcohol-related emergency department attendances amongst young people - pilot study
  A pilot study exploring alcohol-related ED attendances amongst young people and how alcohol data collection in EDs can be developed across the North West. Key findings include: A growing number of...
• Alcohol prevention programmes literature review by Joseph Rowntree Foundation
  A review of literature on programmes concerning young people's excessive use of Alcohol
• Young People and Alcohol - Meanings, Practices and Contexts
  The report, which focuses on the use of alcohol among young people - particularly those aged under 18 years, and those aged 18-24 who drink in excess, is accompanied by three literature reviews - risk...
• Contributions of Alcohol Use to Teenage Pregnancy -An initial examination of geographical and evidence based associations
  Presents the findings from data and evidence research into the relationship between alcohol and sexual activity. The report provides guidance on next steps. Some of the key findings include: While...