UK’s Alcohol Abuse Rate Causes a Need for Fines at Schools October 24
Alcohol abuse has become a particularly hard to treat problem in the UK prompting drastic measures by the federal and local government to help prevent abuse of the substance and other products that contain it. Last week it was reported that UK hospitals and prisons had been forced to remove hand sanitizing gel dispensers (installed to aid in thwarting the spread of germs like those related to the H1N1 flu) from the premises to prevent ingestion of the substance for the purpose of inebriation.
This week problems with parents drinking alcohol outside the gates of a school in Barnsley, South Yorkshire caused the school to instate fines to prevent the habit from continuing. Administrators at the Doncaster Road Primary School took measures to ban street drinking after reports were made to the police in the area about parents seen imbibing the substance outside the school’s gates at the time of pickup and drop-off of their children.
Should the suggested ban be passed it will mean that anyone caught drinking near the school’s premises will receive a 500 pound fine. School officials hope this will be enough to deter parents from repeating the offense and say they made the motion in order to avoid the children from being exposed to such inappropriate behavior.
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