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In UK Children too Fall Victims to Alcohol-related Illnesses
The figures, supplied by the Information Centre for Health and Social Care, showed a slight drop on previous years, with 1,441 drunk youngsters across the country having been hospitalised due to alcohol in 2005-06, 1,587 in 2004-05 and more than 4,600 in the three years prior to that.
In all it comes to 7,500 children in that age group for the last five years, reports The Times newspaper.
Previous research has suggested that in recent years, the overall proportion of children drinking alcohol has fallen, perhaps because of better education but still about 23 per cent of 14 and 15-year-old girls admitted they got drunk at least once a week, compared with 21 per cent of boys.
They are among an estimated 800,000 children below the age of 15 who drink alcohol regularly every year, the charity Alcohol Concern says.
"Many of the young people who drink at hazardous levels require a depth of support that is simply not available in the current system," Frank Soodeen a spokesman for the group said. "We are sleepwalking into a public health crisis if young people drink from an earlier age and start to drink more. The problem clearly starts from a very young age and we need to start focusing on these children. Otherwise we will see more and more older children sprawled on street corners."
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