Partnership Plan 2011- 2012
Based on the outcome of a
Strategic Assessement in October 2010, a
Partnership Plan has been developed, based on the priority areas
highlighted in the Strategic Assessment. Our key aim is to reduce
crime through tackling the negative impacts of alcohol
misuse.
The Partnership Plan
2011-12
We are also working closely with Barrow Crime and Disorder
Reduction Partnership to produce a joint South Cumbria Alcohol
Strategy.
Who pays the price...What will you buy a teenager this
Christmas?
A series of short videos have been produced by
the South Lakeland Community Safety Partnership and Barrow Crime
and Disorder Reduction Partnership in conjunction with Cumbria
Constabulary. The videos are aimed at parents and other adults, but
are also suitable for younger people.
The videos look at the consequences of
buying teenagers alcohol. When young people are attended to for
emergency treatment by the ambulance service or found alone on
local playing fields by the police, seen at our local hospital
unable to even speak their own name, we ask them (once they are in
a fit state to answer) where they got the alcohol from that got
them in such a mess. They most often tell us that they got it from
a parent or well meaning adult.
Before you give alcohol to a teenager this
Christmas, please watch these videos:
Who pays the price? "The one
with the alcohol poisoning"
Who pays the price? "The one with the
sex"
Who pays the price? "The one with
the violence"
Who pays the price? "The one with the
death"
Your Child & Alcohol
South Lakeland Community Safety Partnership has published a
booklet called Your Child and Alcohol.
This isn't a don't drink' booklet, but written to help and
encourage families to start conversations about drinking alcohol.
It was devsied by an 18 year old from South Cumbria and includes
interesting and thought provoking facts about long and short term
health risks, what to do if your child comes home drunk and
websites where you can get further help.
There are two pages that may surprise you. The first is the Quiz,
with 4 multiple choice questions. Try it out and see how much you
do....or don't know! The second is the Law and Alcohol. For
example, do you know it is illegal for anyone over 18 to buy
alcohol for someone under the legal age?