Launching the document, deputy education minister Nicol Stephen said, 'Drug abuse destroys lives, and children are often the most damaged. This guidance provides a way forward for services across Scotland working together.'
The strategy paper says, 'Nursery and school staff and teachers are particularly well placed to observe physical or psychological changes in a child that may signal emerging problems within their family. Children may also confide in their teacher about their parent's drug misuse.' The strategy has grown out of concerns that the desire for agencies working with drug addicts to maintain the confidentiality of adult clients has meant that the needs of their children have been ignored. The chair of the strategy's advisory group, Jacquie Roberts, who is Dundee City Council's director of social work, said, 'The lives of some of the children of drug addicts have been put in danger because of this.'
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