County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document

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Priorities Priorities have been agreed by the Steering and sub groups as detailed in Part A, Section 1. Consultation with young people and other key stakeholders took place in March 2001. Comments from young people and key stakeholders have been incorporated into the strategy. Local Progress Local progress will be monitored quarterly by the Steering Group and sub groups. It will also be monitored by the Tackling Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinator who will retain close links with all stakeholders and lead individuals/agencies named in the action plans. Monitoring arrangements will be considered/planned in more detail in the first quarterly meeting of the Steering and sub groups. County Durham Audit of Current Services and Gaps Identified This audit is taken from the document entitled ‘Tackling Teenage Pregnancy: a response from County Durham Health Authority, Darlington Borough Council and Durham County Council 3 rd March 2000’ Teenage Pregnancy Unit Report Summary of action plans: • Training and support for youth workers The Community Education Services in both County Durham and Darlington are currently looking into developing training and support for youth workers generally on this issue. For Durham Community Education Service a budget of £15,000 (including on-costs) enabled the model of peripatetic support developed for drugs work to be extended to sexual health activities in the youth work setting. The Sexual Health Trainer was recruited funded from this money in November 2000. Encourage Youth and Community Workers to take up the Level 3 Sexual Health Programme accredited through the Tees and Region Open College Network. • Parents as Educators A worker has been employed for 12 months to carry out local action research and development work with parents to support the Department of Health campaign. The aim of the post is to clarify what would effectively support parents in their role as sex educators. Estimated costs including administrative support and on costs £27,000. 25
• Outreach workers linking contraceptive services with vulnerable young people Sexual Health Outreach Workers have been appointed in four of the six PCG areas. Each area will have a worker in 2001/2002. Their task is to act as an advocate for young people in using the contraceptive care services, and to provide Outreach work particularly targeted to settings where young people are known to be at risk, including children in the looked after system, young offenders, young people outside mainstream education, young people who are homeless or with housing difficulties. A further group the Outreach Worker link with is teenage mothers as a first point of contact when pregnancy is confirmed if this is not already addressed by health and social services. Follow up could include encouraging them to access contraceptive services, which does not always happen despite their experiences. Where possible the Outreach worker would also link with generic schools and youth services, and would be an access point for teachers and school nurses encouraging young people to make use of the services for the first time. In addition the proposal for a protocol to ensure consistent follow up of young people using emergency contraception, would be enhanced by the ability to offer an appointment with the Outreach worker, or for the Outreach worker to directly contact the young person. • A Tackling Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinator has been appointed for County Durham and Darlington. Action plans already underway or agreed (A) • Easington PCG Subgroup is working on contraceptive provision • Emergency contraception from Pharmacists This will take place in line with National Guidelines and over the counter availability will be based on patient group directions. • Sex Education Roadshow In Darlington teachers are included as part of the target audience for a ‘sex education roadshow’ training event within the next three to six months The resource boards have been purchased by Health Promotion Units in County Durham and are available through that service. • Standards Fund 2000-2001 Teenage Pregnancy Grant 19E (94,000) Activity Two – Proposals (see section 3.1 for Activity One Proposals) Funding has been developed in schools in ‘at risk’ areas in order to target vulnerable young people. An action research project involving a ‘menu’ of preventative approaches has been provided to enable individual schools to select suitable approaches linked to the Healthy Schools Initiative. A small amount of funding will be retained by the LEA to cover an external evaluation of both activities. 26
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Page 4 and 5: Executive Summary • Britain has t
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BETTER CONTRACEPTION 3 YEAR PLAN S.
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BETTER SUPPORT FOR TEENAGE PARENTS
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Better Support for pregnant school
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Annual Report 2000/2001 Joined Up A
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PART D CERTIFICATE OF AGREEMENT AND
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