Resources

Do you have materials from a project or from policy work you would like to see on the site? Please email us with suggestions.

AFA resources

• A background note (pdf) was written in 2013 to explain the history and context of the AFA.
• Like sugar for adults: The effect of non-dependent parental drinking on children and families (pdf) - Our research with Institute of Alcohol Studies and Alcohol Focus Scotland
• Families First: An evidence-based approach to protecting UK families from alcohol-related harm (pdf) - Our policy report setting out a plan of action
• RSE consultation response (pdf) - Our response to the relationship and sex education consultation, which closed in November 2018
• Read the Alcohol and Families Alliance's comment on the childhood obesity consultation.
• Read our response to the Government's consultation on the Online Harms White Paper

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