Enfield Teenage Pregnancy Strategy

Teenage Pregnancy Strategy

The Teenage Pregnancy Strategy does not provide customer services but coordinates the activities of partners who do so.

The details of how to access to some of those key services are provided in this section.

Teenage pregnancy rate in Britain

The teenage pregnancy rate is a measure of the number of conceptions for every 1,000 young people under the age of 18.  Therefore, the Teenage Pregnancy rate includes all teenage conceptions, whether they end in birth or abortion.

The Social Exclusion Report on Teenage Pregnancy (1999) stated that Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe. Every part of the country is affected but the situation is worst in the poorest areas.

The report highlighted two main goals:

• To halve the rate of conceptions among under-18s by 2010.
• To increase the rate of teenage mothers participating in education, employment or training to 50% so as to reduce the risk of long-term social exclusion.

The Teenage Pregnancy Unit, a cross-government unit located within the Department for Children, Schools, and Families, was set up to implement the Report.To increase the rate of teenage mothers participating in education, employment or training to 50 percent so as to reduce the risk of long-term social exclusion.