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Service priorities
Work to reduce unplanned conceptions and support young parents:
- ensuring safeguarding
- improving attainment
- promoting young people’s morale and self esteem
Functions- Day to day activity of the TP Team involves:
- Ensuring work to address teenage pregnancy is prioritised, TP work is embedded and all key partners understand the interconnectedness of the TP vision and their agency’s contribution to its achievement.
- Support of the Teenage Pregnancy Partnership and delivery groups.
- Working to ensure that young people’s services are accessible and welcoming to young people.
- Training service providers to promote safer sex awareness and the avoidance of unplanned teenage pregnancy.
- Delivering sexual health and teenage pregnancy training to enable workers to deliver sexual services to young people, and to signpost or make referrals to specialist services as appropriate .
- Supporting the Children’s workforce to actively engage in the implementation of the local teenage pregnancy strategy
- Ensuring young people have access to the information and support they need to make informed choices about their lives and relationships - challenging risk taking behaviour.
- Promoting joined up and consistent messages about relationships and sex reach young people, practitioners and the wider community.
- Ensuring that children and young people have access to, and engage readily with, information about local services in their areas and know how and when to access them.
- Monitoring of a core dataset to allow evaluation of local progress in delivering the TPS.
- Increasing the number of teenage parents accessing support services.
- Increasing the percentage of young mothers aged 16-19 who are engaged with services and participating in EET.
- Increasing the range and sustainability of flexible learning, employment and training opportunities for teenage parents available in the county.
- Co-ordinate support for young parents to maximise retention and progression opportunities and support young parents to remain in EET.
- Provide dedicated ante and post natal midwifery service to young women under the age of 19yrs, and to their partners.
The successful delivery of the TP Strategy relies on a strong partnership approach and a shared accountability.
Partners
The Partnership consists of representatives from a range of agencies who all have a key role to play in the achievement of the TP targets:
- Leicestershire County Council
- Leicestershire and Rutland NHS
- Leicester City Council
- Connexions
- Leicestershire Youth Service
- District Councils
- Schools
- University Hospitals Trust Leicester
- The voluntary and community sector
- YOS - Youth Offending Service
- FIS – Family Information Service
- Further Education colleges
Our partners also include young people, young families, parents of teenagers and the general public who we aim to support and whose views we seek to improve our services.
Further Information
- For details about local/national strategies and plans, go to Strategy