The strategy, published by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), set out how the Government will hold to account the local authorities that have made the least progress.
Youth minister Beverley Hughes told Young People Now the range of measures will include the DfES monitoring local authorities and sending progress reports to her. It will also involve the twinning of high-performing authorities with poorly performing councils.
She said the Government would not be making sex education compulsory, describing this option as "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut", but did say there will be improvements.
"If the worst 20 authorities had performed to the standards of the rest, national rates for under-18s would have come down by 23 per cent," said Hughes.
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