Ministers urged to direct schools not to use Drinkaware education programmes

As first reported by the Irish Examiner, Drinkaware continues to offer its training for secondary school teachers against the advice of the HSE, Department of Health and Department of Education.

The Health and Education Ministers have been called on to direct schools against using Drinkaware education programmes, after it wrote directly to school principals dismissing recent media coverage of the programmes as “disinformation”.

As first reported by the Irish Examiner, Drinkaware continues to offer its training for secondary school teachers against the advice of the HSE, Department of Health and Department of Education.