Reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery: supporting people to live a drug free life

In December the coalition government published Drug strategy 2010: reducing demand, restricting supply, building recovery: supporting people to live a drug free life (Home Office, 2010).

The strategy makes clear the importance of drugs education and the role Healthy Schools has to play in supporting schools to plan and deliver it effectively:

"All young people need high quality drug and alcohol education so they have a thorough knowledge of their effects and harms and have the skills and confidence to choose not to use drugs and alcohol.

Schools have a clear role to play in preventing drug and alcohol misuse as part of their pastoral responsibilities to pupils...

...Initiatives such as Healthy Schools will also have a key contribution to make to improving the health and wellbeing of pupils" (page 10).

We are actively offering support to schools, in particular through this drugs education minisite and also by offering schools high quality, effective resources and in-school training through our work with the Christopher Winter Project and their new resource Teaching Drug and Alcohol Education with Confidence in Primary Schools.