{"id":49172,"date":"2014-10-23T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T13:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3a891df9fdfee7e325a982c2b458ed2f"},"modified":"2014-10-23T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T13:20:47","slug":"news-story-students-update-minister-on-binge-drinking-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49172","title":{"rendered":"News story: Students update minister on binge drinking project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker has visited the University of Brighton to find out about the progress of a Home Office-backed project that aims to change attitudes towards excessive drinking. <\/p>\n<p>Seven universities around the country have signed up to the National Union of Students (NUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/alcohol-government-and-national-union-of-students-work-to-reduce-binge-drinking-at-universities\">Alcohol Impact<\/a> initiative, which was launched in May.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"responsible-drinking\">Responsible drinking<\/h3>\n<p>In Brighton, the NUS is looking at ways to tackle pre-drinking in halls and promoting a culture of responsible drinking, by ensuring all bars offer non-alcoholic beverages at the same or lower price than alcoholic drinks. <\/p>\n<p>Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Visiting the University of Brighton gave me the chance to hear from students about the progress already being made through the NUS Alcohol Impact initiative.<\/p>\n<p>It is good that they welcome the opportunities to have fun without getting drunk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">This Home Office-backed project is already helping universities to encourage responsible drinking &#8211; leading to safer and more productive places to study and live.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4 id=\"non-alcoholic-events\">Non-alcoholic events<\/h4>\n<p>During its recent freshers\u2019 week, Brighton university organised a series of non-alcoholic events including caf\u00e9 crawls, knitting workshops and film nights. <\/p>\n<p>NUS Vice President (Welfare) Colum McGuire said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s been fantastic to have the minister visit one of the places where our pilot alcohol impact schemes is taking place, so he can see first-hand how seriously NUS and our member students\u2019 unions consider the welfare of students.<\/p>\n<p>Our Alcohol Impact scheme works with students\u2019 unions and institutions to change attitudes towards drinking and to build healthier, safer, student communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Going to university should be fun and exciting, but it\u2019s really important too that students consume alcohol responsibly during this period and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The seven universities taking part in the pilot are Loughborough, Nottingham, Manchester Met, Liverpool John Moores, Swansea, Royal Holloway and Brighton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker has visited the University of Brighton to find out about their work on the Alcohol Impact initiative.<\/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\/49172"}],"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=49172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}