Risk assessment

By Karen Faux, Nursery World, 31 July 2003

Parental drug addiction can have harmful effects for children, so nurseries need to develop adequate policies to ensure they recognise the signs. Karen Faux investigates When a toddler in Sheffield died last year from drinking methadone, it was a sharp and shocking indicator of just how vulnerable young children are to the dangers of living with drug-addict parents.

Parental drug addiction can have harmful effects for children, so nurseries need to develop adequate policies to ensure they recognise the signs. Karen Faux investigates When a toddler in Sheffield died last year from drinking methadone, it was a sharp and shocking...

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