HEADTEACHERS and senior governors will join the Council, Police and Health Authority representatives next week to launch Bury's pioneering anti-drugs drive, aimed at the Borough's high schools.
The event on May 9 will mark the handing over of £25,000 funding from the Department of Education and Employment's Grants for Education Support and Training.
The cash will be used to bring in new ideas for both drug education and prevention based on the highly successful Student Assistance Programme in America which has been operating since the early 1980s.
The Bury project will run for 12 months and involve all 14 of the Borough's high schools, with much of the work being carried out by the locally based Early Break Drugs Project.
Bury's Chairman of the Drugs Action Team, Councillor Derek Boden, said: "Although the Student Assistance Programme is being imported from America we are sure it can be adapted for use in this country."
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