A tiered approach to tackling young people drinking alcohol in public places.
Alcohol-related crime and disorder by young
people is currently estimated to cost society
£1 billion per year. According to a schools
survey, whilst the proportion of pupils who
have never had an alcoholic drink has increased
gradually in recent years, pupils who are
drinking, are drinking a lot. Those who drank
alcohol in the last week had a mean intake of
14.6 units. The proportion drinking on the
street, in a park or somewhere else is also
continuing to rise reaching 34% in 2008.
More than 3,500 young people were successfully targeted by the summer 2009 crackdown on teenage binge drinking and 15,000 were signposted to positive activities and received treatment where necessary. Nonetheless, there is more to be done and that is why The Home Office is introducing a tiered approach to dealing with young people drinking alcohol in public places, and a new offence of persistently possessing alcohol in a public place.
The guidance explains the offence of persistently possessing alcohol in a public place as contained in Section 30 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009, which received Royal Assent on 13 November 2009. Section 30 establishes a new offence of persistently possessing alcohol in a public place, making it illegal for a person under the age of 18 to be in possession of alcohol on 3 or more occasions within a period of 12 consecutive months.
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More than 3,500 young people were successfully targeted by the summer 2009 crackdown on teenage binge drinking and 15,000 were signposted to positive activities and received treatment where necessary. Nonetheless, there is more to be done and that is why The Home Office is introducing a tiered approach to dealing with young people drinking alcohol in public places, and a new offence of persistently possessing alcohol in a public place.
The guidance explains the offence of persistently possessing alcohol in a public place as contained in Section 30 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009, which received Royal Assent on 13 November 2009. Section 30 establishes a new offence of persistently possessing alcohol in a public place, making it illegal for a person under the age of 18 to be in possession of alcohol on 3 or more occasions within a period of 12 consecutive months.
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How can the State of the Cities Database be more useful? Recommendations based on user consultation.
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A user consultation, commissioned by
Communities and Local Government and carried
out by Oxford Consultants for Social Exclusion
(OCSI), identified how the CLG State of
the Cities Database could be made more useful
to users. This reports presents the
recommendations made based on the user
consultation.
The report is aimed at users of the State of the Cities Database and people with a general interest in statistics for cities.
It is accompanied by a scoping study by OCSI that looks at the technical feasibility of updating the geographic definitions and data content on the State of the Cities Database.
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The report is published as a .pdf document. If you can not view the report, you may need to install Acrobat Reader on your machine.
The report is aimed at users of the State of the Cities Database and people with a general interest in statistics for cities.
It is accompanied by a scoping study by OCSI that looks at the technical feasibility of updating the geographic definitions and data content on the State of the Cities Database.
Click here to view the report...
The report is published as a .pdf document. If you can not view the report, you may need to install Acrobat Reader on your machine.
On applying cost/benefit analysis to services for children, young people and families
Improved outcomes
lead to better life chances and reduce
impact on high-cost services later in life
– this has been evidenced through numerous
scientific analyses on longitudinal
studies of children across the world.
Birmingham’s Brighter Futures Transformation programme for services to children, young people and families aims to measurably improve the physical health, behaviour, emotional health, literacy and numeracy, social literacy and job skills of children. As a result, the wider system in which children’s services operate will be transformed - moving from service-led thinking to planning and delivery based on outcomes, children’s needs and evidence-based programmes.
The strategic benefits of transformation will enable the move from reactive to preventative working, and the corresponding shift of resources from high cost specialist services to early intervention that meets the needs of children and young people. Resources will be distributed more efficiently; with preventative and targeted support meeting additional need earlier and significantly reducing the numbers of children with complex needs requiring intensive and expensive specialist services.
Developing the model
The Brighter Futures transformation programme spans over ten years in terms of implementation timescales and fifteen years in terms of full benefit realisation (accumulating as the child grows up). The programme is expected to deliver cashable benefits of approximately £101.2m against an investment of £41.7m. Read More...
