Last year, the project worked with about 5,000 young people. Maddy Honeybone and Joanne Hamilton-Smith, two of the project's four founders, are taking the lesson today. "From the very beginning we said if we can just prevent one young woman from becoming pregnant when they're not ready, then we've succeeded," says Honeybone.
It is no coincidence that Southampton is exploring such new approaches.
The area's teenage pregnancy rate is 51.6 young women per thousand, compared with a national average of 41.7 for England and Wales, placing the area on "amber" alert under the new Department for Education and Skills guidelines (see box, right). Why the city has such a problem is hard to explain.
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