Every three days a child under 10 is treated in hospital for the effects of alcohol, new government figures show.
According to the data, 648 children under 10 have been treated in accident and emergency wards for alcohol-related illness in the past five years. They were among 24,000 under16s who drank so much that they needed hospital help.
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