A school has apologised for selling a seven-year-old girl alcoholic chocolates.

The chocolates were purchased by the girl during a Mother's Day fundraiser at Golcar JI School last Thursday.

While the young girl thought the box of 24 prosecco chocolates would make a nice present, her mum was less impressed with the school.

The anonymous mother said: "She saved up her pocket money to get me a Mother's Day present.

"I don't drink and my daughter is seven so she has no concept of what alcohol is.

"I contacted the school and they didn't say sorry; they brushed it off.

"In the past my daughter has eaten gifts that were meant to be for me... Any child would be tempted to eat one of them."

She added: "I was expecting her to come home with a pencil case or some roses - not alcohol.

"I want to switch schools."

Golcar JI School apologised for selling the girl the chocolates and said the products were withdrawn from sale once the issue was raised.

In a statement headteacher Gill Dyson and chair of governors Bryn Stokes said: "The chocolates were sold by our Parents Teachers Association as part of a Mother’s Day fundraising sale.

"As soon as we were made aware of the issue we withdrew them from sale, and we have contacted the parents or carers of the children who bought the chocolates offering them the opportunity to swap the gift.

"We would like to apologies for the oversight and assure you that we will do everything in our power to make sure this does not happen in future."

Can you get drunk from eating alcoholic chocolates?

Sam Preston shortly after his appearance on Celebrity Big Brother

There don't appear to be any bona fide scientific experiments into this.

There are, however, documented incidents of people trying to achieve inebriation by eating large numbers of chocolate liqueurs.

An infamous episode of Celebrity Big Brother saw contestant Sam Preston attempt to push himself over the drink-driving limit by eating boozy chocolates. Despite eating 50 and vomiting four times he failed.

In another 'experiment' the subject managed to swallow 45 chocolate liqueurs but her breathalyser claimed she was still below the legal limit for driving.

Attempting to achieve intoxication by eating large volumes of alcoholic chocolates is likely to make you ill as you would be putting dangerous amounts of sugar into your body. In this case, your body would be likely to protect itself by making you vomit.

It isn't illegal for minors to buy alcoholic chocolates but alcohol in any volume is harmful to children. Therefore you should keep them away from your young ones.