Call for Government to ban alcohol industry-funded schools programmes

Drinkaware continues to offer its training for secondary school teachers against the advice of the HSE, Department of Health, and Department of Education.

The Government must give a “clear and unequivocal” message to schools that alcohol industry-funded programmes should not be delivered in the classroom.

That’s the call from the Irish Community Action on Alcohol Network (ICAAN) which is to call for Drinkaware, an organisation with charity status funded by donations from the alcohol industry, to cease all education activities in schools.