• 2011 activity >>
  • Your kids and alcohol launch event
  • Why let good times go bad? 2011
• 2010 activity >>
  • Why let good times go bad? 2010
  • Newquay Safe Partnership & the Got Your Back Cafe
  • Why waste your week being wasted?
  • Hoof it!
  • Drink less, be more
• 2009 activity >>
  • Alcohol and young people: what's the attraction?
  • Alcohol: what's the attraction? Young people speak out
  • Alcohol and redundancy
  • Drink less, miss less
  • Why let good times go bad
  • Topshop and Topman staff event
  • What's Britain drinking this Christmas?
• 2008 activity >>
  • Point of sale campaign
  • Alcohol: how much is too much?
  • Tips for a Christmas to remember

This wide-ranging and occasionally controversial debate covered a number of important themes relating to alcohol and young people. Below we have gathered together several of the key discussion points from the day. Click to view a topic or scroll down to view all the clips.

• Alcohol and young people: what's the attraction?
  
• Is it realistic to expect parents to supervise 15-17 year olds when they drink?
  
• What influence are parents’ attitudes to alcohol having on their children?
  
• What role can teachers and youth workers play?
  
• What are the alternatives to drinking for young people?
• How is the issue of young people and alcohol treated in society?
  
• How have trends in young people’s drinking changed?

Alcohol and young people: what’s the attraction?

Hannah Jolliffe of YouthNet talks about how through her work she has found that young people often drink alcohol for the same reasons as adults.

Is it realistic to expect parents to supervise 15-17 year olds when they drink? 

Using the CMO’s recent recommendations that parents should supervise children between 15-17 years old if they choose to drink, Sally Grimson of the Family and Parenting Institute and Baroness Delyn Morgan from the Department of Children, Families and Schools (DCFS) discuss whether this is an easy thing to do.

What influence are parents’ attitudes to alcohol having on their children?

The Drinkaware alcohol and young people survey results reveal that young people see their parents as being very influential when it comes to shaping their attitudes around alcohol. This comes as no surprise to Sally Grimson of the Family and Parenting Institute and Jack Law of Alcohol Focus Scotland.

What role can teachers and youth workers play?

The roundtable attendees talk about how teachers, youth workers and role models educating children as early as possible about alcohol could be the solution to a growing problem.

What are the alternatives to drinking for young people?

Sarah Boseley from the Guardian and Sally Grimson from the Family and Parenting Institute discuss how the lack of social spaces for young people to meet up in mean there are few alternatives.

How is the issue of young people and alcohol treated in society?

Tim Martin founder of the pub chain JD Wetherspoon questions whether it is society itself that is to blame for young people drinking rather than teenagers themselves.

How have trends in young people’s drinking changed?

The roundtable attendees discuss the popularity of alcopops and spirits amongst young people.

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