County Durham Local Teenage Pregnancy Strategy - Full Document

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Getting back into education • Continue to encourage under 16 year old mothers to resume and complete full time education, with support from the appropriate services, i.e. child care agencies, support for parents of teenage parents. • Continue to offer support through multi-disciplinary agencies, i.e. GP, Midwife, health visitor, Home and Hospital Support, Social Services for both parents. • Continue to offer access to quality, affordable child care as appropriate, i.e. out of five local colleges, three have nursery provision from birth onwards, one has provision from age two years and one college has no provision (details of each college and number of placements below). • Continue to provide lessons in parent craft and the development of practical skills for all young people in the education system. • Individual tailored educational packages following assessment of social support required and the educational needs of the young person. • To incorporate the Connexions Personal Advisor into the home and hospital support service. • To continue Lifelong Learning Programme with input from FE and Careers Service. • To continue to support Sure Start Programmes. • To continue with the sex and education programmes in school, enabling young people to discuss issues and have access to up-to-date information – multi agency support. • To continue to promote and extend the child care available in colleges, see earlier section. • To continue to promote the availability of childcare in the local community. Lists of carers available from Social Services. • To continue to promote Out of School Hours provision. 93
Needs, circumstances, culture and ethnicity of young parents • Each young person has individual needs. • Continue support from multi-agency sources from the young people. • Support for the parents of the teenage parents with information and advice – in some instances these parents become the child carer, to enable the young mother to return to education or employment. Mechanisms in place to monitor truancy or exclusion of under school age girls known to be pregnant Truancy - Education Welfare Officer liasing with schools – on-going. - School routine of attendance – on-going Exclusion when pregnant • The young woman would not be excluded because she was pregnant. • Involvement of school nurse to carry out home visit. • Health Visitor involvement offering ante natal advice. • Midwife involvement providing ante natal and post natal advice and care. • Use referral system to the appropriate agency. • Develop a close, multi-agency partnership to ensure that young pregnant girl and her family have all the relevant information or support needed during pregnancy and following the birth of her child. The following action plans detail services which aim to reintegrate teenage parents into education and give support to them intended to reduce the risk of their becoming socially excluded. 94
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County Durham Local Teenage Pregnan
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Executive Summary • Britain has t
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Background and Information Within W
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PART A SECTION 1 7
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Teenage Pregnancy Unit: Long Term a
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Head of Service Connexions, County
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School Nurse Manager Women’s Serv
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Links to other Policies The Teenage
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PART A SECTION 2 17
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The latest measure of deprivation,
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Primary Care Groups have a crucial
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Table 2 Conception Rates for under
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Priorities Priorities have been agr
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The Grant will be managed by a team
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involves collecting examples of goo
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Develop a protocol for the consiste
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enable this range of services to pr
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• Develop more structured follow
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approach in this area including ava
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Page 44 and 45: Local Media Campaign County Durham
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Page 54 and 55: Better Sex & Relationship Education
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Page 78 and 79: BETTER CONTRACEPTION 3 YEAR PLAN S.
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Page 91 and 92: BETTER SUPPORT FOR TEENAGE PARENTS
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Page 100 and 101: l) Access to childcare m) Homeless
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Page 110 and 111: Annual Report 2000/2001 Joined Up A
Page 112 and 113: Impact of funding • The Local Imp
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Page 116 and 117: PART D CERTIFICATE OF AGREEMENT AND
Page 118: Conclusion • Following very clear
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