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enable this range of services to provide a multidisciplinary approach to reducing teenage pregnancy, and to the provision of education other than at school. • Joined up Services Make more explicit links between community nurses e.g health visitors, school nurses, midwives, practice nurses and GP’s, and the support available from careers, youth workers, educational welfare officers, learning support services. • Contraceptive provision in colleges Some colleges would like to encourage provision of contraceptive care services on site and should work with their Primary Care Group and Trust colleagues to enable this to happen. All colleges should be encouraged to make condoms available as a minimum. • Staff training in colleges Some colleges would like in service training for staff from health professionals in order to ensure an accurate and appropriate information is being delivered. Staff should be encouraged to take up the level three training programme accredited through the Tees and Region Open College Network. • Contraceptive provision in the youth setting Expand on contraceptive provision in the youth setting if consultation with young people indicates that this is an appropriate source of contraceptive provision. This would require fresh resources or the reallocation of resources from traditional family planning clinics. This should not reduce the quality or level of service for other client groups. • Training for foster carers Ensure health promotion skills generally and sexual health specifically form part of the recruitment, development and basic training package offered to foster carers in both Durham and Darlington (“Payments for Skills Training Programme”). If appropriate consider extending this basic training for some carers who specialist for example in work with girls at risk. • Training for residential staff Include health promotion skills generally and sexual health specifically as part of the NVQ Level 3 staff development and training programme related to children’s homes, which includes the module on young peoples health and development. Develop links with Specialist Health Promotion Services, providers of sexual health advice and contraception to support delivery of this programme. • Enhanced training of “resource staff” Develop a model in which some children’s home staff act as a “resource person” who has done accredited training in relation to health promotion theory, skills and methods and specific subject areas including sexual health, in order to give generic staff backup in the form of advice, discussion, and access to materials, in their relationships with young people where sexual health issues arise. 33
• Partnership agreement with carers County Durham Looked After System to develop a Partnership Agreement with the Careers Service for the children in care sector. • Dissemination of information Providers of information, resources, sexual health advice to ensure delivery to relevant access points including residential homes, social security offices, social services etc. • Youth Offenders and Teenage Pregnancy data Include information about links with teenage pregnancy in the baseline data collection exercise for young offenders, in order to focus on the specific links, and inform future progress. • Young Offenders Institutions Work with all young offenders institutions to ensure issues of sexual health and contraception are addressed. Include all Young Offenders Institutions and the Probation Service in the next development of this Action Plan. • Improve communication with parents Improve communication with parents from both schools and health agencies. This includes informing parents of sex education in the curriculum, in the primary school setting as well as the secondary school setting. • Parents as Educators training Train trainers and training key stakeholders such as school governors to develop awareness of possible approaches to sex education. • Improve access to resources Make widely available access to health education resources available to support parents, including lending books and packs to parents, putting suitable pre schools books in the book loan scheme, ensuring a wide range of leaflets is on display, providing work sheets in school that children can finish with parents help, and disseminating Teenage Pregnancy Unit campaign materials for parents on talking to their children about sex. • Consistent advice and support To work with PCGs, Trusts and Social Services to ensure equitable access to help and advice from all services is consistently offered to young women as soon as possible after the pregnancy is confirmed. • Provision of childcare facilities The young people are dependent upon family support to care for the baby while they are attending the groups or school. Some young people do not have this support. There are plans to pursue this issue through involvement in the Sure Start initiatives within County Durham linked to Early Years Childcare Partnerships. 34
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BETTER SUPPORT FOR TEENAGE PARENTS
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Impact of funding • The Local Imp
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