A new study exploring the key challenges and issues facing alcohol policy and local strategy has been released through the new AERC Alcohol Insights library.
'The Orientation and Integration of Local and National Alcohol Policy in England and Wales' (download pdf) provides a unique insight into how alcohol policy is determined and delivered, examining the complex factors that shape and influence its delivery. Informed by consultation and research within both local and national frameworks, it explores a number of key themes:
- The policy landscape
- Tensions between the centre and the peripheries
- Tensions within and between partners within ‘core’ statutory partnerships
- The role of the private sector
- Contradictions within policy formulation and implementation
- Relations between statutory partners and other non-statutory policy actors such as the drinks industry and local residents
- The limitations of alcohol policy
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