Hello All

1.  The Home Office have just published a publication called a practical 
guide to dealing with alcohol problems.  It is largely criminal justice 
focussed but makes for interesting (and occasionally amusing) reading, 
listing legislation and offences in relation to alcohol related 
offending.  It includes offences relating to children too although this is 
not exhaustive. The link is:

http://drugs.homeoffice.gov.uk/publication-search/drug-
strategy/alcoholguide?view=Binary

(The amusing bit (for me anyway)is the bit about how pubs can be fined for 
selling drink to drunk people or for selling drink to people buying drink 
for drunk people! Who decides what drunk is? Isn't drink supposed to make 
you drunk to a greater or lesser degree?)

2. In case you don't know about it, you can access policy 
initiatives/documents/consultations etc as they happen on 
www.info4local.gov.uk.  Once you register you can sign up for weekly 
alerts and they'll be emailed to you. Careful how many subjects you choose 
otherwise the weekly alert can be quite long!  However it is a good way of 
keeping up to date on policy stuff.

3. Re this mailling list.  Following comments and suggestions last 
mailout, the good people at JISC tell me they have now set the default to 
reply to sender ONLY.  This means that if you want your reply to go to the 
wider list you will have to post it AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME and create a 
NEW POST.  I suggest we try this for a bit and see how it goes!

All the best

Sarah.