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<\/a><\/div>\nHome<\/a> > News<\/a><\/p>\n Group calls for national strategy to counter \u2018Britain’s biggest secret scandal\u2019<\/p>\n The All Party Parliamentary Group on Children of Alcoholics has launched a manifesto<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> calling for the government to create a national strategy to “break the cycle of this terrible disease” and properly to fund local support for children of alcoholics.<\/p>\n The APPG says that one in five children in the UK lives with a parent who drinks too much. Compared to other children, children of alcoholics are:\u00a0<\/p>\n Worst of all, it says, children of alcoholics are also four times more likely to become alcoholics themselves \u2013 there is a cycle of alcoholism cascading down the generations. There is, says the APPG, a need to break the silence around “Britain’s biggest secret scandal”.<\/p>\n The APPG’s research confirms “a shocking picture of support for children of alcoholics”:\u00a0<\/p>\n Over the last year, the group has brought together policy makers, experts from charities, interest groups and medicine and children of alcoholics themselves, to create a manifesto. It sets out the 10 key points the government needs to address if children of alcoholics are to be properly supported and the rise in problem drinking halted. <\/p>\n The Government, it says, needs to:\u00a0<\/p>\n For the manifesto, click here<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>. For details of the APPG on Children of Alcoholics, click here<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n 16\/2\/17<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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