COUNCILS TOLD TO ‘RAISE THEIR GAME’ TO CUT TEENAGE PREGNANCY RATES
The local delivery of services designed to cut the rate of teenage pregnancies is crucial to their success according to the Minister for Children, Young People and Families, Beverley Hughes, but she is also calling on all local authorities to do more to reduce the figures by 2010. New figures from the Office of National Statistics show that the overall conception rate for under 18s remained virtually stable from 42,198 in 2004 to 42,187 in 2005, but with more girls under 16 becoming pregnant. That figure was up by four per cent.
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