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Alcohol Alert - April 2022 Alcohol Alert Podcast
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- News Commentary
Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies.
In this edition:
* Will the Health Disparities White Paper help where previous strategies have failed? 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵
* Ban on drinking during football matches may be overturned after nearly 40 years
* ‘Sobriety tags’ to be rolled-out further, following scheme’s “success”
* Councils to receive £85.7 million for drug and alcohol services
* Parents choose a “reluctantly accepting” approach to children drinking
* Protecting public health in trade and investment agreements
* Mandatory calorie labelling on menus comes in and cracking down on gambling ads
We hope you enjoy our roundup of stories below: please feel free to share. Thank you.
IAS Blogs
To read blogs click here.
Will the Health Disparities White Paper help where previous strategies have failed?
🎵 Podcast feature 🎵
Following the February release of the Levelling Up White Paper*, the Government is set to publish a Health Disparities White Paper this Spring, which should set out how the gap in health inequalities will be reduced and how the Levelling Up plan of delivering 5 additional years of healthy life by 2035 will be achieved.
In our podcast we spoke to Alice Wiseman, Director of Public Health at Gateshead Council, about what could be expected from the White Paper, particularly in terms of alcohol. She said, “It’s really important that it’s a cross-government approach, if we don’t combine action across all wider determinants of health we won’t achieve the aspirations set out in the Levelling Up White Paper.”
The Health Foundation think tank has highlighted ‘Five tests for tackling health disparities’ within the levelling up agenda, including that there needs to be significant investment to support the proposals – which the Levelling Up White Paper did not include – and how a cross-government approach is crucial to success.
The Alcohol Health Alliance and IAS will be responding to the Health Disparities White Paper once it is published.
* A White Paper is a report that sets out proposals for future legislation.
Ban on drinking during football matches may be overturned after nearly 40 years
In November 2021, the Fan Led Review of Football Governance was published, which set out recommendations for how to reduce issues within the game, particularly financial issues. On 25 April 2022 the Government announced that it accepts or supports all ten of the strategic recommendations.
Within one of the recommendations is the suggestion to assess whether the current alcohol rules – established 37 years ago – are fit for purpose. The current rules mean spectators cannot drink alcohol in sight of the pitch in England’s top five leagues. The Review refers to the “perverse outcome” of being promoted from the sixth to the fifth league and it being unaffordable to the club due to not being able to sell as much alcohol.
The Government says it will consider the case for pilot schemes of the sale of alcohol in sight of the pitch, but that this “must be balanced against wider fan safety considerations”. They cited the “appalling conduct of some fans at the EURO 2020 final between England and Italy at Wembley Stadium” partly being driven by alcohol.
Chief Constable Mark Roberts of Cheshire Police, previously told Sportsmail that it was “madness” to lift the alcohol ban in stadiums during matches, highlighting a surge in arrests at football matches this season and the violence at Euro 2020.
There is very little evidence as to how a change in alcohol sales legislation at football stadiums would affect rates of violence. The University of Stirling is currently working on a number of studies on ‘Understanding the role of alcohol consumption in football cultures‘. The first of these was published in December 2021 and concludes that “alcohol regulations in some nations and sports – where restrictions are based on hi
Hello and welcome to the Alcohol Alert, brought to you by The Institute of Alcohol Studies.
In this edition:
* Will the Health Disparities White Paper help where previous strategies have failed? 🎵 Podcast feature 🎵
* Ban on drinking during football matches may be overturned after nearly 40 years
* ‘Sobriety tags’ to be rolled-out further, following scheme’s “success”
* Councils to receive £85.7 million for drug and alcohol services
* Parents choose a “reluctantly accepting” approach to children drinking
* Protecting public health in trade and investment agreements
* Mandatory calorie labelling on menus comes in and cracking down on gambling ads
We hope you enjoy our roundup of stories below: please feel free to share. Thank you.
IAS Blogs
To read blogs click here.
Will the Health Disparities White Paper help where previous strategies have failed?
🎵 Podcast feature 🎵
Following the February release of the Levelling Up White Paper*, the Government is set to publish a Health Disparities White Paper this Spring, which should set out how the gap in health inequalities will be reduced and how the Levelling Up plan of delivering 5 additional years of healthy life by 2035 will be achieved.
In our podcast we spoke to Alice Wiseman, Director of Public Health at Gateshead Council, about what could be expected from the White Paper, particularly in terms of alcohol. She said, “It’s really important that it’s a cross-government approach, if we don’t combine action across all wider determinants of health we won’t achieve the aspirations set out in the Levelling Up White Paper.”
The Health Foundation think tank has highlighted ‘Five tests for tackling health disparities’ within the levelling up agenda, including that there needs to be significant investment to support the proposals – which the Levelling Up White Paper did not include – and how a cross-government approach is crucial to success.
The Alcohol Health Alliance and IAS will be responding to the Health Disparities White Paper once it is published.
* A White Paper is a report that sets out proposals for future legislation.
Ban on drinking during football matches may be overturned after nearly 40 years
In November 2021, the Fan Led Review of Football Governance was published, which set out recommendations for how to reduce issues within the game, particularly financial issues. On 25 April 2022 the Government announced that it accepts or supports all ten of the strategic recommendations.
Within one of the recommendations is the suggestion to assess whether the current alcohol rules – established 37 years ago – are fit for purpose. The current rules mean spectators cannot drink alcohol in sight of the pitch in England’s top five leagues. The Review refers to the “perverse outcome” of being promoted from the sixth to the fifth league and it being unaffordable to the club due to not being able to sell as much alcohol.
The Government says it will consider the case for pilot schemes of the sale of alcohol in sight of the pitch, but that this “must be balanced against wider fan safety considerations”. They cited the “appalling conduct of some fans at the EURO 2020 final between England and Italy at Wembley Stadium” partly being driven by alcohol.
Chief Constable Mark Roberts of Cheshire Police, previously told Sportsmail that it was “madness” to lift the alcohol ban in stadiums during matches, highlighting a surge in arrests at football matches this season and the violence at Euro 2020.
There is very little evidence as to how a change in alcohol sales legislation at football stadiums would affect rates of violence. The University of Stirling is currently working on a number of studies on ‘Understanding the role of alcohol consumption in football cultures‘. The first of these was published in December 2021 and concludes that “alcohol regulations in some nations and sports – where restrictions are based on hi
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