Monday 2 February 2009

Alcohol and teenage pregnancy

Last week Children's Secretary Ed Balls was quoted in the Telegraph as saying that there is a link between binge drinking, having unsafe sex and teenage pregnancy.

We know that alcohol plays a part because young people tell us that it does. We also know that PSHE is not universally established and young people’s services are not as available and as high profile as they should be.

While we need to address the impact of alcohol we must not get sidetracked from building the foundation blocks which are still not in place everywhere: good PSHE, good outreach work, high profile visible young people’s services and strong youth services.

Good education will make the link between alcohol and sexual risk taking - Brook has a publication, Drunk in charge of a body, which helps professionals to do exactly that.

3 comments:

Sheila said...

Yes, and our youth need to be made aware of the severe permenant health afflictions, all alcohol is capable of dealing out, as it sees fit !
Many of us are perservering in our attempt to have Government Officials, pass legislation on mandatory health warning labels on all liquor containers.
Lets just hope we'll eventually succeed, preventing at least 50% of our youth from these incurable illness's.

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