Project
Teenage Pregnancy Strategy
Funding
Includes £450,000 a year for targeted youth work, tackling pregnancy and related issues such as alcohol and substance misuse
Background
In 2008, Halton Council had a visit from the government's Teenage Pregnancy National Support Team, after figures for 2007 showed an alarming peak in the proportion of 15- to 17-year-olds getting pregnant in the North West borough.
The figure stood at 68.2 per 1,000, much higher than the 41.4 England average and a large increase from the 47.8 figure recorded in Halton just a year earlier. The council resolved to improve and extend sexual health information and advice for young people and the following year saw the appointment of Halton's "teen pregnancy tsar", John Bucknall.
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