Drug incidents in schools
Dear colleagues,
Most of you will have seen the news yesterday which highlighted a number of school aged children from Camden taken to hospital having taken Nerds sweets containing THC. Police in Camden have shared the photograph below with local schools.
Some of you will have been contacted by your Education department, others may wish to proactively make contact to offer support and advice. Whilst local boroughs will have borough specific information to share, I wanted to highlight that Frank (https://www.talktofrank.com) has easily accessible information that you may wish to share and which is accessible for parents and children.
This may also be an opportunity for young people’s treatment services to make contact with schools, children’s centres and pupil referral units to raise drug awareness.
If we receive any further information we will share this with you. Please also let us know if we can support you further.
Alison Keating
Head of Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco
Public Health England (London)