County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document
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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