CYP Now - Youth alcohol action plan must tackle young people's attitudes

Measures to reduce binge drinking will need to go deeper than those indicated in The Children's Plan if they are to be successful, a youth crime expert has warned.

The plan revealed a youth alcohol action plan would be published in the spring to tackle the problem of under-age drinkers.

The government has said the plan will look at alcohol education in schools, tackle parental alcohol misuse and consider the case for further action on alcohol advertising.

But Tim Bateman, senior policy advisor at crime reduction charity Nacro, said this would not be enough. "They may be reasonable things to do but they're only a fairly small part of the overall picture," he said. "The action plan needs to recognise there appears to be a difference in attitudes towards alcohol in this country to those elsewhere."

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