The Department of Health plans to create a new workforce of adolescenthealth workers over the next two years, using plans to be developed bysites in Bolton, Hackney, Portsmouth and Northumberland. Currently,there is only one adolescent health consultant in England.
The move is the first indication of the Government's plans for thesites, which were trailed in last summer's Choosing Health white paperas a way of boosting good practice in adolescent health.
Karen Turner, programme manager for the Department of Health's childrenand young people's public health programme, said early learning from thesites would be circulated to children's trusts to carry out the worklocally.
The news emerged at last week's Developing Adolescent Health Servicesconference in London.
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