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Apple Barn Court, Old Church Lane, Westley, Bury St Edmunds, England. IP33 3TJ
Telephone: (+44) 01284703300, E-Mail: courseware@btinternet.com

The author, Terry Brown, has worked as a teacher, an adviser and a consultant. He works with schools and local authorities and on behalf of
national organisations concerned with drug education.

You have a policy and everyone nods in the right direction - and there isn’t a ‘problem’. That’s okay until something goes wrong. Staff or governors make a wrong decision, parents are angry and the media are camped outside your gates.

It may take a couple of meetings but it will all be worthwhile if it saves foolhardy pupils, earnest teachers, and the school community from a lengthy public ordeal.

Use Delivering Drug Education to revisit your school’s policy and to check that everyone in the school community (including pupils, parents and governors) knows what the school’s values are and how senior managers will act to stop an incident from turning into a crisis.