Resources

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AFA resources
A background note (pdf) was written in 2013 to explain the history and context of the AFA.

Good practice

• Alcohol Hidden Harm Toolkit - Funded by Comic Relief
• Alcohol Hidden Harm Toolkit: resource guide (pdf) - Funded by Comic Relief
  
• Bottling it up: Fact-sheet for families worried about alcohol misuse (pdf) - Turning Point
• ChildLine Case-notes: Children talking to ChildLine about parental alcohol and drug misuse (pdf) - ChildLine and NSPCC
  
• Identifying and supporting children affected by parental substance use: Resource for schools (pdf) - Adfam and Mentor-ADEPIS
• It's the drink talking (video) - PROPS North East
  
• Silent voices: Supporting children and young people affected by parental alcohol misuse (briefing note) (pdf) - The Office of the Children's Commissioner
• Working with the children and families of problem alcohol users: A toolkit (pdf) - Lorna Templeton, Sarah Zohhadi and Richard Velleman

Research and policy

• Alcohol and whole family recovery: What we know and what we don’t know (pdf) - Adfam and STRADA
• Bottling it up: The next generation (pdf) - Turning Point
• Family life and alcohol consumption: A study of the transmission of drinking practices (pdf) - Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Investigating parental monitoring, school and family influences on adolescent alcohol use (pdf) - Alcohol Research UK
• Knowledge set three: Families and carers (pdf) - Alcohol Concern (Embrace Project)
  
• Out of focus: How families are affected by problem drinking, and how they seek help (pdf) - Adfam
  

• Parenting capacity and substance misuse briefing (pdf) - Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
• Silent voices: Supporting children and young people affected by parental alcohol misuse (full report) (pdf) - The Office of the Children's Commissioner
• Swept under the carpet: Children affected by parental alcohol misuse (pdf) - Alcohol Concern and The Children's Society
• The Government's alcohol strategy (pdf) - HM Government

The Parenting and Alcohol Project (The Parenting Fund and Alcohol Concern)

• Child protection issues for professionals working with parents who misuse alcohol (pdf)
• Confidentiality: guidance for professionals working with problem drinking parents (pdf)
  
• Hidden Harm issues for professionals working with parents who misuse alcohol (pdf)
  
• Multi-agency working: guidance for professionals working with problem drinking parents (pdf)
  
• Parental alcohol misuse and the common assessment framework (pdf)
• Parenting, alcohol misuse and treatment service provision (pdf)
• Problem drinking and fatherhood (pdf)
• Protective parenting and children's resilience within the context of parental alcohol problems (pdf)
• Safeguarding children: working with parental alcohol problems and domestic abuse (pdf)
• Understanding Alcohol Issues for Professionals working with Parents (pdf)
• Alcohol and the family: a position paper from Alcohol Concern (pdf)