{"id":45596,"date":"2014-07-24T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=51f2120c265faa479e549273a145a127"},"modified":"2014-07-24T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T15:09:48","slug":"press-release-enhanced-support-for-local-tobacco-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45596","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Enhanced support for local tobacco control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Public Health England (<abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>) is backing local authorities, tobacco control alliances, and health and wellbeing boards to undertake the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/clear-local-tobacco-control-assessment\">CLeaR tobacco control assessment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Originally developed by Action on Smoking and Health (<abbr title=\"Action on Smoking and Health\">ASH<\/abbr>), CLeaR supports local public health organisations to review their current tobacco control efforts and develop further actions to reduce smoking rates. <\/p>\n<p>As part of its commitment to supporting local tobacco control, <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> will provide CLeaR assessment training for 2 people engaged in tobacco control in each local authority area.  <\/p>\n<p>CLeaR participants begin the review process of evaluating their tobacco control efforts by completing a self-assessment. Once complete, participants can invite a peer-assessment team to review the self-assessment, visit the locality to clarify understanding, and provide a CLeaR report which can be used to support further improvement. The assessment can be completed annually to track progress.<\/p>\n<p>Councils that complete the assessment are awarded the CLeaR standard mark, a public recognition of their work to reduce the harm from tobacco. <\/p>\n<p>Local tobacco control measures can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>effective enforcement of existing legislation: for example, age of sale restrictions and smoke free laws<\/li>\n<li>commissioning and promoting stop smoking services<\/li>\n<li>designating additional smoke free areas: for example, playgrounds or parks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These measures have a number of benefits including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>saving money for local health and social care services<\/li>\n<li>protecting children from harm<\/li>\n<li>increasing the disposable income of local populations<\/li>\n<li>reducing inequalities caused by smoking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duncan Selbie, Chief Executive, Public Health England, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Public Health England is delighted to be re-launching the CLeaR tool.  By prioritising tobacco control local bodies have the ability to transform the public\u2019s health by tackling the biggest cause of preventable deaths and health inequalities in England.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Deborah Arnott, Chief Executive, Action on Smoking and Health said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We can never be complacent in our efforts to reduce the harm caused by tobacco. CLeaR was designed by and for local partners to take stock of their efforts and engage their peers to improve the health of their communities. The CLeaR re-launch with the new <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> incentives provide further encouragement and support for local organisations to prioritise tobacco control.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"ends\">Ends<\/h2>\n<h2 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> exists to protect and improve the nation\u2019s health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. It does this through advocacy, partnerships, world-class science, knowledge and intelligence, and the delivery of specialist public health services. <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> is an operationally autonomous executive agency of the Department of Health.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/public-health-england\">www.gov.uk\/phe<\/a> Follow us on Twitter @PHE_uk<\/li>\n<li>CLeaR was originally developed by <abbr title=\"Action on Smoking and Health\">ASH<\/abbr>, in conjunction with partners including Cancer Research UK, Tobacco Free Futures, FRESH, Smoke Free South West, <abbr title=\"Chartered Institute of Environmental Health\">CIEH<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"National Institute for Health and Care Excellence\">NICE<\/abbr> and a range of partners from local government and the NHS. <\/li>\n<li>The CLeaR model is based on the 3 domains of;\n<ul>\n<li>challenge for existing tobacco control services, based on the evidence of the most effective components of comprehensive tobacco control, as outlined in <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nice.org.uk\/Guidance\/Lifestyle-and-wellbeing\/Smoking-and-tobacco\"><abbr title=\"National Institute for Health and Care Excellence\">NICE<\/abbr> Guidance<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-tobacco-control-plan-for-england\">Healthy Lives, Healthy People: a tobacco control plan for England<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>leadership for comprehensive action to tackle tobacco<\/li>\n<li>results demonstrated by outcomes delivered against national and local priorities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These 3 domains are underpinned by the central core of local priorities, which encourages the consideration of the broader aims of local authorities and health and wellbeing boards complement and support strategies to tackle tobacco.<\/li>\n<li>\n<abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr> is taking the CLeaR tool under licence from <abbr title=\"Action on Smoking and Health\">ASH<\/abbr> until 2015 as part of <abbr title=\"Public Health England\">PHE<\/abbr>\u2019s work to support local tobacco control.<\/li>\n<li>For more information on CLeaR please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/clear-local-tobacco-control-assessment\">clear local tobacco control assessment page<\/a> or contact <a href=\"mailto:CLeaRTobaccoTeam@phe.gov.uk\">CLeaRTobaccoTeam@phe.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_1957\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Public Health England: Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Press Office <\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">Skipton House, 80 London Road, London, SE1 6LH<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:phe-pressoffice@phe.gov.uk%20%20\">phe-pressoffice@phe.gov.uk  <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7972 1934\/020 7972 1904\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours: <\/span><br \/>\n              020 8200 4400\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health England re-launches the CLeaR assessment with new support for local organisations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}