Letter to schools warns against using alcohol industry funded educational programmes

School children during a Year 5 class at a primary school in Yorkshire. PA Photo. Picture date: Wednesday November 27, 2019. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

The Government has explicitly warned schools not to use alcohol industry-funded programmes like Drinkaware’s in the classroom after angry calls for them to be banned. 

“There is no place for the alcohol industry in schools,” a letter sent by the Department of Education and the HSE to schools today and seen exclusively by the Irish Examiner, states.