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You are here: Home / News / UK halves teen pregnancy

UK halves teen pregnancy

August 3, 2016 by adminstrator

The Guardian 18 July 2016 reports a massive drop in teenage rates of pregnancy over the last 20 years.

[Alison] Hadley, who led the implementation of the teenage pregnancy strategy for England, said: “We realised that teenage pregnancy was everyone’s business, from health to education, to social care and youth services. Local areas agreed individual targets and if progress was slow, they were directly contacted by the [then] children and health ministers – Beverley Hughes and Caroline Flint – and helped to get back on track.”

High-quality relationships and sex education was introduced, with welcoming health services – in the right place, open at the right time – and friendly nonjudgmental staff to help young people delay having sex until they were ready, at which point they knew how to use contraception effectively.

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