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AbstractIn May 2023, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley announced the withdrawal of his officers from attending mental health emergencies, under the new policy Right Care, Right Person (RCRP). In some sense, the move highlights that the police role and remit is not a settled, immovable social fact, and as such, this development, in some limited sense, lends support to the 'defund the police' argument. However, defunding done properly requires more than simply withdrawing personnel from a procedural response to an emergency. The article argues that this potentially transformative moment must be capitalised on through an holistic approach to harm prevention—one which seriously demotes police involvement in favour of investment in non‐punitive visions of care in order to make for a truly safer society.

ABSTRACT

Aims
To examine the impact of non-dependent parental drinking on UK children aged 10–17.


Methods
Cross-sectional survey of UK parents and their children in 2017 (administered to one parent in a household, then their child, totaling 997 adults and 997 children), providing linked data on parental drinking from parent and child perspectives. The survey included measures of parents' alcohol consumption and drinking motivations (both reported by parents) and children's exposure to their parent's drinking patterns and children's experiences of negative outcomes following their parent's drinking (both reported by children), plus sociodemographic measures.


Results
Logistic regression analysis indicates a significant positive association between parental consumption level and children reporting experiencing negative outcomes. Witnessing a parent tipsy or drunk and having a parent who reported predominantly negative drinking motives were also associated with increased likelihood of children reporting experiencing negative outcomes. Age was also associated, with older children less likely to report experiencing negative outcomes following their parent's drinking.


Conclusions
Findings suggest levels of and motivations for parental drinking, as well as exposure to a parent tipsy or drunk, all influence children's likelihood of experiencing negative outcomes.

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