Schools: Substance Abuse Education Debate
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Baroness Meacher
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Schools: Substance Abuse Education
Baroness Meacher Excerpts(9 years, 10 months ago)
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Lord Nash
Ofsted tells us that the drugs education in schools is good. There are a great many charities working with schools, not necessarily during formal curriculum time. Attendance is at an all-time high at schools. Absence has fallen substantially. We have strengthened the national curriculum to cater for more drugs education.
Baroness Meacher (CB)
Will the Minister support the constructive policies of many European countries, which have been shown to improve prevention; reduce the numbers of young people addicted to drugs; reduce the prison population, particularly of young people; and increase the numbers of young people and others receiving treatment, relative to the performance of this country on all those measures?