1. Alison Hadley Teenage Pregnancy Unit Department for Education Teenage Pregnancy: TPU update

2. The next chapter ▪Building on the progress made ▪Re-housing teenage pregnancy work under new priorities ▪Capturing and sharing effective practice... with diminishing resources, unsettled workforce and lots of unknowns!

3. Ministerial priority ▪Progress to date, evidence review and consultation responses informing ministerial discussion ▪Priority statement in July from Sarah Teather (LD), Minister for Children and Families ▪ Joint priority statement in autumn from Sarah Teather and Anne Milton, DH Minister for Public Health

4. Key Government priorities ▪Reducing child poverty ▪ Narrowing health inequalities and improving public health ▪ Narrowing educational inequalities and improving skills and employability ▪Focusing on the most disadvantaged children, young people and families

5. Re-housing teenage pregnancy work: the priority ‘umbrellas’ for prevention and support ▪Child Poverty Strategies ▪ NHS reform and the Public Health Service ▪ Early intervention ▪Refocusing Children’s Centres to reach vulnerable families

6. Child Poverty Strategies ▪ Child Poverty Act places a statutory duty on Government and all LAs and named partners to undertake a needs assessment and develop a coordinated and comprehensive Child Poverty Strategy by Spring 2011 ▪Named partners: District Authorities, PCTs and SHAs, the police, YOTs & probation service, transport authorities, and Job Centreplus ▪ Child Poverty Unit (dfe) publishing needs assessment toolkit for LAs at end September ▪TPU contributing to toolkit and developing some additional teenage pregnancy child poverty briefing

7. NHS reform and public health service ▪ NHS White Paper - consultation responses by 5 October. New architecture and abolition of PCTs & SHAs by 2013 ▪Kennedy Review of NHS services for children and young people. DH consultation document published 16 September. Responses by 11 Oct. ▪Public Health White Paper, publication December. Proposed public health service led by DPH in LA, from April 2012. LAs responsible for public health commissioning with ring fenced budget, likely to be 2-4% of NHS budget. ▪Stakeholders strongly advocating for inclusion of contraception, abortion and sexual health services in the new Public Health Service

8. Other relevant reviews underway ▪Early intervention review – chaired by Graham Allen, Nottingham North Lab MP. Reporting at end Jan 2011 ▪Childhood and Families Taskforce – including workstrands on relationships (led by PM) and teenagers (led by DPM) – reporting October/November ▪Review of poverty and life chances, led by Frank Field (Lab) – reporting December ▪Violence against women and girls – Government strategy, led by Home Office, March 2011

9. Children’s Trusts and Partnership Working ▪Children Act basic duty of partnership working remains. LAs still have a duty to make arrangements with partners to improve the well being of children and young people ▪Government removing specific requirements on LAs to have a Children’s Trust Board and publishing a Children and Young People’s Plan ▪Statutory guidance on Children’s Trusts withdrawn ▪Duty to cooperate on schools, colleges and Jobcentres removed

10. Performance management ▪New arrangements being developed for sector led improvement and challenge for LAs – with minimal intervention from Government. In place for April 2011 ▪DH continuing performance management of Vital Signs and plans until March 2011 – including under 18 conception rate and chlamydia screening. ▪Teenage pregnancy ‘script’ provided to SHA performance leads – focused on improving access and uptake of effective contraception. Discussions with PCTs expected to start in October.

11. Collating and sharing effective practice ▪ C4EO – call for effective practice extended to end Oct ▪C4EO additional support to help local areas calculate cost effectiveness of interventions ▪National Support Team helping to compile compendium of teenage pregnancy best practice, in liaison with C4EO ▪ Examples should be sent to Joanna.Nichols@dh.gsi.gov.uk ▪Effective practice to be included in future arrangements for sector led improvement and support – from April 2011

12. Specific teenage pregnancy policy update Data ▪LYPSE analysis to help make the case for early identification ▪Data matching pilot – conception data and pupil level database – Nov ▪ Core data set for local performance management of teenage pregnancy progress Campaigns ▪Future of Sex. Worth Talking About ▪Brook Christmas campaign: Have Fun, Be Careful SRE/PSHE ▪Forthcoming curriculum review ▪Wider interest in relationship focus in SRE ▪Funding of PSHE CPD programme Related programmes ▪You’re Welcome, Healthy Schools, Healthy FE ▪Targeted Youth Support

13. Specific teenage pregnancy policy update CASH = Reproductive and sexual health services ▪ Additional SHA contraception funding for 2010-11 ▪ Contraception/sexual health and QIPP. Forthcoming briefing paper on cost effectiveness and ready reckoner on implants – October/November ▪ Briefing on reducing repeat conceptions – October ▪ Brook guide – Young men, sex and pregnancy – publication in October Workforce training on relationships and sexual health ▪ Importance of workforce training to increase local capacity ▪ 12 examples of local effective practice to demonstrate impact

14. Life without RTPCs What can TPU provide: ▪Quarterly and annual data provision ▪Quarterly policy update ▪Response to queries – but limited capacity ▪ Liaison with SHA sexual health leads ▪ Link to Sex Education Forum free email network for professionals What we will need from you: ▪One contact per LA (maximum 2) with email, landline and mobile number ▪Updated contact details if TP lead changes to Anna.Newman@education.gsi.gov.uk