A law making it legal to give five-year-old children alcohol at home should be scrapped, according to a leading health education lecturer.
Psychologist Dr Aric Sigman is encouraging doctors to lobby the government to raise the age limit as he said that delaying the time when children and young people take their first sip may stave off future problems.
Writing in the BMJ journal Archives of Disease Childhood, he argued that alcohol is particularly problematic for young people.
