Research to Reality seminar series: Teenage Conceptions
Monday 1st March 2010
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough
Starting in November, a series of facilitated multi-agency workshops will focus on priority National Indicators for the North East and examine the evidence about the kinds of interventions that result in positive outcomes. The workshops will be open to people who work directly to deliver the related LAA target, including, but not exclusively, policy and strategic leads, portfolio holders, partnership and service managers, LSP Board members, voluntary and community sector service deliverers, as well as academics and researchers.
Prior to every half-day workshop, participants will receive an informative research digest on the relevant topic. The workshops themselves will be lively and interactive. Participants will have the opportunity to ‘get under the skin’ of the issues with experienced and knowledgeable colleagues.
The UK has the highest rate of teenage births in Western Europe. Furthermore research demonstrates that teenage pregnancy can have adverse consequences for teen mothers and their children. This is largely due to its complex relationship with disadvantage and social exclusion. Moreover teenage mothers are (amongst other findings) more likely to have fewer qualifications, suffer from mental health problems, and experience high levels of partnership breakdown than older mothers. Children of teen mothers are more likely to achieve lower educational attainment, suffer from behavioural problems, live in poor housing conditions, and in the case of females, become teen mothers themselves. Teenage Conception rates are therefore a national priority identified by the Government, and reflected in national indicator 112.
Created Thu 21 Jan 2010 by Janet Shucksmith | Email to a friend