Police are to round up children found drinking on the streets of North Tyneside and take them home in a new alcohol strategy.
The Child Safe Initiative will see officers patrolling the streets at weekends and collecting underage drinkers who have been reported by the public. The officers will take the children home, confiscate their alcohol and talk to the family about the dangers of drinking.
Afterwards a separate team will write to the family to offer them advice and support.
The strategy will also involve a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking while pregnant and more work by Trading Standards to catch shops selling alcohol to under-18s.
