In a joint ministerial message with care minister Paul Burstow, Teather called on local authority teenage pregnancy leads to reduce the number of teenage births and abortions in every council area.
National figures published last month revealed that teenage pregnancy rates have hit a 40-year low. Overall, there has been a 24 per cent decline in teenage pregnancy rates among under-18s since 1998.
The ministers said: "While rates have reduced overall, there is still too much variation between local areas. We urge local authorities to learn from the areas that are seeing the most significant reductions so that the decline shown by the data can continue and accelerate in the future nationwide."
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