Published: 2006-07-16 00:00:06
Author: By Sophie Goodchild and Jonathan Owen

An extensive study published today reveals that girls as young as 13 are making a "career choice" by deciding to have children, since they see parenting as preferable to working in a dead-end job.

The findings from the Trust for the Study of Adolescence challenges the assumption that schoolgirl mothers are all irresponsible adolescents who are ignorant about using contraception. The revelation that teenage girls are actively choosing motherhood is backed up by official figures obtained by this paper which show that nearly a quarter of pregnancies to under 18s are second children.

The research will have huge implications for government policy, which gives little acknowledgement to the fact that some girls see motherhood as the right decision for them. Britain has highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe, with an estimated cost to the Government of at least £63m a year.

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TEENAGERS in Ongar who fall pregnant are more likely to turn to abortion than girls anywhere else in the country.

Over a two-year period, 78 per cent of conceptions among under-18s in Epping Forest District ended in abortion, the highest rate in England and Wales and 10 per cent higher than in the preceding two years.

The figures released by the Office for National Statistics relate to 2005 – 2007 and reveal that there were 188 conceptions for under-18s, 147 of which ended in abortion.

From thisistotalessex.co.uk

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03 February 2009 By Leah Strug

BINGE-drinking teens are putting themselves at risk of getting pregnant – the Government has warned.

The information was released as the Government steps up the campaign to raise awareness of the risks of heavy drinking.

The number of young people who drink is coming down, but those who do are drinking more often, and more heavily.

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A recent survey revealed that half of all under-25s don't use condoms with new partners.

This has led to a rise in gonorrhea by 42 per cent between 1998 and 2007. And almost 3 per cent of British teenage girls give birth, the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Europe.

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The Norton Grange, Castleton+
24th February 2009

09.30 – 13.30 (including lunch)

This conference is aimed at practitioners from across Youth Work, Children’s Social Care, Youth Offending, Link for Life, Connexions, and school based teams; as well as the voluntary sector organisations and individual practitioners from other organisations including in the private sector.

Improving our knowledge of and our responses to sexual exploitation is imperative in protecting the most vulnerable young people in Rochdale. In 2009 Rochdale will launch a new Sexual Exploitation Unit, which will allow us to tackle these issues, support young people and hamper paedophile activity. Working together in safeguarding is a priority for all agencies and this conference will shape our responses to the challenge of sexual exploitation of young people.

Proposed Agenda



9.30 Conference Opening

9.45 Introduction - Aims of the day and the new Sexual Exploitation Unit

10.00 Sara Swann – National Overview

10.30 Gladys Rhodes – Lessons to be learned from Blackburn


11.0 Break

11.30 Tony Philbin – Local picture and Safeguarding

11.45 Kate Kennedy – Links with the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy

12.00 Workshop – How can your agency contribute?

12.45 Closing Speech - Terry Piggott – Sexual Exploitation as a local priority

13.00 Lunch

Please contact Amy Hallisey, amy.hallisey@rochdale.gov.uk, 01706 925163 to register your interest before the 16th January 2009 as places are limited.

 

A new study has found the British are the most promiscuous western nation BRITISH men and women are now the most promiscuous of any big western industrial nation, researchers have found. In an international index measuring one-night stands, total numbers of partners and attitudes to casual sex, Britain comes out ahead of Australia, the US, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. More in The Times

ScienceDaily (Nov. 6, 2008) — Alcohol and attitudes are two of the key factors that health professionals need to be aware of when they are dealing with sexually active teenagers, experts are urging.

London, November 6: Teenage boys think it is perfectly all right to get a girl drunk to get them into bed, a new UK research has found.

For the study, the researchers analysed the attitudes of 35 boys and girls between 14-16 years of age, who had gone to clinics for contraception in areas with high teenage pregnancy rates.

From Express India

Published Date:
06 November 2008 By Sheena Hastings

IT'S not news that men and women can have vastly differing attitudes to sex, but health professionals have been probing those attitudes in young teens in an attempt to understand their links with pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease and abuse of alcohol in socially deprived areas of South Yorkshire.

From The Yorkshire Post

We're pleased to announce that the final version of the No Worries logo has been signed off and will be available soon to download from this site. Thanks to all the Young People and professionals that gave us the valuable feedback in developing the look! You can download the logo from here.

The www.ypsh.net website will be down over the weekend while the web hosting company switches to new servers. We expect the site to be back up late Monday, August 4th. 

It' the final stage for the No Worries logo design. Young people and professionals have agreed on the design and so now it's just down to getting the colour right. We have to use the CYP colour pallete so below are the variations the designer has come up with. What do you think?

10 pill
4 Chlamydia
4 warts
3 herpes
3 contraceptive
3 Cystitis
3 from
3 get
3 Can
3 games
2 house
2 iud
2 PILL
2 CAN
2 quiz
2 alcohol
2 Hepatitus
2 METHOD?
2 device
2 aids
2 4YP
2 ejactulation
2 clinic
2 pictures
2 wilbury
2 ABORTION
2 condoms
2 thrush
2 HAVE
2 Hepatitis
2 first
2 genital
2 intrauterine
2 crabs
2 masturbating
2 alcol
2 WHERE
1 abortion
1 pants
1 lice
1 masturbation
1 infections
1 ORAL
1 carot
1 tear
1 supposed
1 wanking
1 im
1 genetal
1 eating

Above is the latest version of the 2008 logo collection. You can leave comments below, or Click here to see the other logos. 

My name is Nicolette Boskaljon, I represent a group of students from the VU University located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Currently we are conducting a research report on the topic ‘media and abortion’. In order to successfully carry out our research I am writing to request your participation in our survey.
 
Your help will be highly appreciated and will contribute not only to our University department but also towards research in general to further understand the topic of abortion.
We estimate the survey will take 15 minutes. The survey is formatted using check boxes in attempt to make it user-friendly and less time consuming to complete. We will share the survey results without any identification of any organizations names. It will be completely anonymous.

Please follow the link, to fill in the questionnaire
We thank you for your assistance!

Yours sincerely,

Nicolette Boskaljon
Student Communication Science
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

As part of the consolidation of all the TP Suffolk main initiatives, our designers have produced a new set of logos. The new look is much more cohesive and presents a unified identity that young people can associate with already successful services. The style is based on the current YPSH brand.

 

 

 

      

24 week time limit for abortion under threat!

MPs and organisations who oppose abortion are trying to restrict women from having them. 

Sign the petition 

They’re attacking the current 24 week time limit for abortion, and trying to pass laws slashing it from 24 weeks to 20. If successful, women who’ve had pregnancies diagnosed as abnormal, vulnerable women in crisis, and women who didn’t know they were pregnant won’t be able to have an abortion.

Support fpa's campaign to protect the limit.

The rates are down for Suffolk for 2006-great news! Teenage conception rate
is 30.8, in numbers 412, a % change rate (1998-2006) of -17.9%. This equates
to a reduction of 2.5% from 2005 to 2006.

A full table with teenage pregnancy rates in each local authority
can be found at: http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/health/teenagepregnancy

The Government's 10 year, Teenage Pregnancy Strategy was launched in
1999 and has a linked PSA target to halve the under 18 conception rate by
2010.  The strategy is based on international research evidence on what
works to reduce teenage pregnancy and improve health/education outcomes for
teenage parents and their children. The strategy has five main themes:
Joined up action; National Media Campaign; Support for the parents of
teenagers; Prevention including improving sex and relationships education
and access to contraception; and support for teenage parents.  The strategy
can be found at: http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/health/teenagepregnancy

Anthea Lipsett
Tuesday February 26, 2008
EducationGuardian.co.uk

Advocacy groups today welcomed the government's review of sex education in schools, but warned that putting sex into the context of relationships was paramount in cutting the UK's soaring rates of teenage pregnancy.

Announcing the review of sex and relationship education (SRE) yesterday, the schools minister, Jim Knight, and children's minister, Beverley Hughes, said SRE had improved but delivery was still "patchy".

The UK has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in Europe and ministers have repeatedly tried to tackle the problem.

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"You don't see the bad bits"

"It sends the message to girls that you can not worry about contraception and if you get pregnant, never mind, you can just give the baby away."

Katie Byers, 16, from Newbury, Berkshire, is due to have her second child this summer.

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