Monday 24th November

A very interesting day today working on a project  in Halton. The Home office have identified 20 areas across England where alcohol harms (based around crime and hospital admissions) are high and called them Local Alcohol Action Areas. Partners such as the Council, Public Health and trading standards have all agreed to put in place schemes to reduce alcohol related problems – including underage drinking.

The Home Office have promoted our talk about alcohol programme to all the areas, and we have an exciting outreach for ‘hard to reach’ parents being piloted in Halton using mobile technology – I can’t say more at the moment! We have another webinar outreach to parents we’re trialling with Sainsbury’s too, who employ 130,000 staff, many of whom are parents on low incomes with many responsibilities to juggle. I love the innovative part of our work – I just wish the technology wasn’t so expensive as we could do so much more!