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County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document

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Annual Report 2000/2001<br />

Joined Up Action<br />

In <strong>County</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> and Darlington Health Authority a local Co-ordinator was<br />

appointed and took up the post on 1 st November 2000. The co-ordinator has<br />

been responsible for ensuring that strategic planning with key stakeholders<br />

occurred and that decision-making groups met to begin planning strategy<br />

development. A <strong>County</strong>wide Steering Group was established and sub groups<br />

were developed from it to specifically consider key areas of the Darlington<br />

<strong>Strategy</strong> and <strong>County</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>Strategy</strong>.<br />

Decision making groups were formed around the key areas of:<br />

Better sex and relationship education.<br />

Better contraception and advice services.<br />

Better support for teenage parents.<br />

The groups met twice to agree terms of reference, to establish that<br />

membership was appropriate and to ensure that representatives of all relevant<br />

agencies were represented. Membership of the groups demonstrated joint<br />

partnership working is detailed in part A, section 1 of the local strategy<br />

document. During these initial meeting formulas for strategy development were<br />

discussed.<br />

It was agreed that half day working sessions would be held to kick-start the<br />

joint working and to develop strategic vision and action planing. The working<br />

sessions led to the strategy and three-year action plans contained in the<br />

strategy which also identified lead responsibilities. It was possible to agree on<br />

those leads as each working/discussion making group was a multi-agency<br />

group representing Health, Education, Social Services and voluntary sector as<br />

appropriate.<br />

It was agreed that consultation with a wider group of key stake holders would<br />

be held on production of the draft strategies for <strong>County</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> and<br />

Darlington, and that feedback from the consultation stage would further inform<br />

both the strategies and the work of the decision making groups.<br />

It has also been agreed that the steering group and other decision making<br />

groups (as detailed above) will reconvene quarterly to assess the and monitor<br />

the progress made by agencies and to ensure that the three year action plans<br />

are being delivered.<br />

Partnership arrangements (other than the joined up working via multi-agency<br />

groups) were also agreed in the year 2000/2001. <strong>County</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> and<br />

Darlington Health Authority agreed partnership working with:<br />

• Community Education in <strong>County</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> – for training and support for<br />

youth workers.<br />

• The University of <strong>Durham</strong> – to fund research in to parents as educators.<br />

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