County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document

• Ensure quality of access to impartial advice and information through the
development of “One Stop Shops” in schools and in the community as a
pilot project. Funding would be requested.
• Continue to support Sexual Health Outreach Workers in each PCG area
whose work is primarily with young people at risk and in high rate areas.
• Continue to work with Investors in Children.
• Using a joined up approach to SRE across a variety of settings including
the Looked After System, the Youth Offending System, the Youth
Service and in alternative Provision we will reduce the likelihood of
young people experiencing social exclusion in terms of educational
underachievement.
Lead
Healthy Schools, Standards Partnership, Community Education Service
including LEA, Youth Workers, Social Services, Investors in Children,
Connexions Services, Sexual Health Outreach Workers.
Timescale
• To date, Sexual Health Outreach Workers, Health Promotion
Professionals and Youth Workers are working with local young people on
joint projects.
• A Peer Education Project on the realities of young parenthood runs in
Easington.
• 1 year – provide guidance on sex and relationship education by offering
training on DFEE Guidelines leading to the development of a policy for
identified staff. Funding would be required.
• 1 year – consider mainstreaming of Re-integrated Officers post within
LSS. This would require additional funding of £35,000.
• 1 year – full time support (at present, part-time) and educational
provision for teenage mothers, would require extra funding of £10-
12,000.
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