How can local health services ensure that the underlying trend of cutting teenage pregnancies is maintained?
Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are key delivery partners within local strategies to reduce teenage pregnancy rates. They are responsible for the delivery of contraceptive and sexual health (CASH) services, including discrete young people-centred services. Young people’s services are delivered in a range of non-traditional clinical settings, such as in FE colleges, secondary schools and other youth settings. Health professionals undertake health promotion work in a range of settings, including through inputting to schools’ SRE programmes. The target to halve the under-18 conception rate by 2010 (compared to the 1998 baseline rate) is shared by both the DCSF and the DH. How does the government work alongside local authorities and schools in order to tackle the problem and promote sex education to young people? All local authorities have local under-18 conception rate reduction targets of between 40 and 60%. These targets underpin the national 50% target. Differentiated support and challenge
