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Resources
Alcohol, Drugs and Staying Safe
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
This lesson plan amalgamates the Public Health England Rise Above materials on alcohol with bespoke materials provided by Avon & Somerset Police. It also looks at the factors that lead to experimentation with alcohol and drugs.
County Lines
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
In 2017, the Home Office, National Crime Agency, the National Police Chief’s Council, the Children’s Society and Victim Support, as well as a number of smaller, individual organisations have all released new guidance on approaching the . . .
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Drug and alcohol education
Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
The PSHE Association drug and alcohol schemes of work for key stages 1-4 have been developed for Public Health England. This pack includes lesson plans and resources for each key stage — with knowledge organisers included — as well as a . . .
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Not In Our Community: Grooming and Exploitation
Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Higher Education
Developed with young people, Not In Our Community means working together to protect against grooming and exploitation. This website contains education resources for year 6 students and above. Includes county lines materials
Videos
Links
Children’s Society
Children as young as six are being forced to carry and sell drugs far away from their homes. They are made to skip school, sleep in drug dens, keep secrets from their loved ones. They are treated as criminals when they often feel trapped in a hopeless situation.
County Lines (Fearless)
County Lines is a very serious issue where criminal gangs set up a drug dealing operation in a place outside their usual operating area. Gangs will move their drug dealing from big cities (e.g. London, Manchester, Liverpool etc.) to smaller towns in order to make more money. This can have a really big effect on the community who live there and bring with it serious criminal behaviour.
Not In Our Community
Developed with young people, Not In Our Community means working together to protect against grooming and exploitation. Not In Our Community is developed and continually improved with young people, including survivors, to help us protect ourselves and friends from grooming and sexual or criminal exploitation. We co-produce resources and stories based on real life events for use on social media and in schools / other groups where young people hang out. Our approach telling it like it really is helps thousands of young people understand how grooming and exploitation works so that they can better protect themselves, spot the warning signs amongst friends and know who they can go to for help.
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Solomon Theatre Company
Solomon Theatre Company – since 2003 – specialists in communicating messages that result in crime reduction, improved community safety and the promotion of healthy schools and healthy lifestyles.
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Talk to Frank
Home Office Minister Lord Henley said ‘There are so many ways for young people to get information on drugs: through their friends, the internet, TV programmes, films and song lyrics that knowing what’s true and where the dangers lie can be difficult. It is important that young people know that FRANK will always give them free and accurate information and confidential advice whenever they need it.
The Five Pathways
The Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) is best known for its major ‘Breakthrough Britain’ reports, which identified the five Pathways to Poverty – family breakdown, educational failure, worklessness, addiction and crime, and problem debt and housing. All of these pathways to entrenched poverty are interconnected and many of those trapped in poverty have experienced more than one of these problems. Through its work in each of these areas the CSJ seeks to move the poverty debate away from a simple fixation with a single ‘poverty line’ and instead look carefully at the lives of those living in poverty and what can be done to change those lives and eradicate poverty for good.
The Mix
The Mix is the UK’s leading support service for young people. We are here to help you take on any challenge you’re facing – from mental health to money, from homelessness to finding a job, from break-ups to drugs. Talk to us via our online community, on social, through our free, confidential helpline or our counselling service.
News
03/10/2022 : Around 2.6 million young people used an illegal drug in past year, charity finds
Sky
25/09/2022 : Up to £5m funding to support county lines victims
BBC
24/09/2022 : Catch22 to provide support for victims of County Lines exploitation
Catch-22
21/09/2022 : Cannabis sweets ‘marketed at children’ being widely sold on social media
Sky
08/09/2022 : Drop In Children’s Smoking And Drug Use
Russell Webster
06/09/2022 : Rise in teenage vaping, as drug use falls – survey
BBC
30/08/2022 : Britain’s ‘terrifying’ laughing gas epidemic
Daily Mail
26/07/2022 : Alcohol deaths from pandemic drinking are predicted to rise
BBC
22/06/2022 : Mental health: Turning to illegal drugs during support wait
BBC
20/06/2022 : County lines: Inside the complex battle against drug gangs exploiting children
BBC
Documents and Publications
Overlooked: Why we should be doing more to support families and friends affected by someone else’s drinking, drug use or gambling.
This latest research looks at the number of people negatively impacted by someone else’s drinking, . . .
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Criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults: county lines
This guidance outlines what county lines (and associated criminal exploitation) is, signs to look . . .
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We’re all in this together?
The Children’s Commissioner’s local area profiles of child vulnerability provide a way for councils . . .
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