A condom distribution scheme in Nottinghamshire, which includes sex education, has helped bring down the teenage conception rate.
The C Card scheme was developed by the local Teenage Pregnancy Partnership in 2004 and is an example of promising practice identified by C4EO.
"One issue was that young people had difficulty accessing free condoms," says Nottinghamshire County Council's teenage pregnancy co-ordinator Sue Jablonskas.
"There was an informal scheme with youth workers giving out condoms in youth centres but we wanted to formalise that."
The county council's teenage pregnancy team went on to co-ordinate the scheme as part of efforts to meet a government target of halving the teen conception rate by 2010.
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