The Teenage Pregnancy Strategy is meant to halve conception rates for young women aged under 18 by 2010. Latest figures show the rate has fallen from 46.6 per 1,000 in 1998, the baseline year, to 41.4 per 1,000 in 2004.
Hilary Armstrong, the Cabinet Office minister for social exclusion, said: "It is a common misconception that teenage pregnancy rates haven't fallen. But they are still far too high, and higher than they are in other European countries. We have to find a more effective way of doing this work. And we have to work with the third sector to make sure we deal with this effectively."
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