Teenage pregnancy / report by the Social Exclusion Unit ; presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister by command of Her Majesty, June 1999.

  • Great Britain. Social Exclusion Unit
Date:
1999
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Teenage pregnancy / report by the Social Exclusion Unit ; presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister by command of Her Majesty, June 1999. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This report meets the Social Exclusion Unit’s remit to report to the Prime Minister to: “work with other departments, building particularly on the work already undertaken by the Department of Health to develop an integrated strategy to cut rates of teenage parenthood, particularly under-age parenthood, towards the European average, and propose better solutions to combat the risk of social exclusion for vulnerable teenage parents and their children.” The report has been prepared in consultation with all the relevant Government Departments and the Unit has been greatly helped by the many organisations and individuals who responded to its consultation exercise and arranged meetings and visits. The Social Exclusion Unit’s remit covers England only and references within the report to ‘national’ initiatives relate only to England. However, the analysis underlying the report, and the importance given to tackling the problem is shared by the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland Offices. Together with the new devolved administrations, they will be considering whether the action set out in the report could be applied in the light of the particular circumstances present in each country.