The DCSF and the local strategic partnership, Team Hackney, have given £24,000 to examine 10 years' worth of data to identify which interventions have had the most impact on teenage pregnancy rates in the borough and which provide the best value for money. Professor Roger Penn at Lancaster University will publish his findings in January 2008 and they will be used to highlight best practice and to inform the next phase of the Government's national teenage pregnancy strategy.
Teenage pregnancy rates in Hackney have dropped by 28 per cent since 1998, two-and-a-half times the national average of 11 per cent. Hackney's teenage pregnancy programme includes a range of integrated measures including grants to help young mothers with childcare while they are studying, peer mentoring for young mothers, one-to-one advice on contraception, and counselling.
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