Parents to get youth drink guide..

[Jack]

will this affect the way teenagers see drink?

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Source & Full Article: BBC

Parents are to be given guidelines on how much alcohol their children can safely consume, in a bid to encourage teenagers to drink more responsibly.

'Two-strikes' rule

Those who fail to get their children to "change their ways" and stop abusing alcohol could be required to attend parenting courses or end up facing prosecution.

Teenagers persistently possessing alcohol in public will be subject to anti-social behaviour orders (Asbos) and acceptable behaviour contracts.

The police will receive tougher powers to disperse gangs of young people congregating in the open, including a new offence covering the persistent possession of alcohol.

Bars and off-licences are being told to ask anyone looking under 21 to prove they are over 18 before alcohol is sold.

And vendors will face a "two strikes" rule on selling booze to children in an attempt to curb binge drinking among teenagers.

The cross-Whitehall alcohol action plan was unveiled by Mr Balls, together with Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Health Secretary Alan Johnson.

Mr Balls says he wants to encourage a different perception of alcohol.

Do you think that the 'Two Strike Rule' will work? Or do you think it is the right way to go forward?

I don't think that under-age drinking is the true problem, it's the people that get drunk and cause the violence and become agreesive, they are the problem.

[Steve Gardner]

Get sellers to be more vigilant about who they sell to by all means, but the idea that parents have to get their children to "change their ways" or else be required to attend parenting classes or face prosecution is the sort of crap that really winds me up.

And what the bloody hell does "persistently possessing alcohol in public" actually mean? I mean, they're going to make this a new offence.

Once again, another half-arsed policy from a desperately poor government.

[Jack]

I know, you can hardly walk down the road to the shop and get a bottle of wine or something anymore as they'll see it as persistently possessing alcohol in public now, even if you only do it every so often.

Also, there aren't that many police physically around anymore so unless they watch every security camera and record people walking with alcohol or drinking it then it's going to be hard for them to catch them.

I'm also assuming that persistently possessing alcohol in public isn't actually related to people who drink in pubs everyday?

[Steve Gardner]

Jun 3, 2008 17:07:57 GMT Jack said:

I'm also assuming that persistently possessing alcohol in public isn't actually related to people who drink in pubs everyday?

No - this is aimed at people in open public places I assume.

What really troubles me about the phrase persistently possessing alcohol in public is it appears to be criminalsing the simple act of possession even if they're doing nothing wrong.

[Jack]

I know, it's just a weird thing to introduce.
What the strange thing about it is the persistently, as I'm not sure how they are going to be able to record whether someone is persistently possessing alcohol in public.

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