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Sex and the CityBirmingham
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Finding include …Finding include …
Rates of teenage pregnancy 25% higher than the national average
Abortion rates rising by 4% a year, with 1 in 4 under the age of 25 having had one or more previous abortions
Ten inner city wards account for around 46% cases of gonorrhea, 54% syphilis, 32% teenage pregnancies, 37% terminations and 30% terminations under the age of 20 years
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Change in under-18 conception rate by Region 1998-Change in under-18 conception rate by Region 1998-20062006
-10.1%-11.1%
-12.2% -12.4% -12.5% -12.9%
-16.6%
-18.9%
-14.5%
-20%
-18%
-16%
-14%
-12%
-10%
-8%
-6%
-4%
-2%
0%
W Mids London Y&H East NW SE NE SW E Mids
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Trends in BirminghamTrends in BirminghamLatest ONS figures (provisional) for
200753.2 per 1000 girls aged 15-17 in
2006 to 52.8 in 20071,119 conceptions to under 18 years
with 51% being terminatedCompared to England and the West
Midlands, Birmingham has seen a slight decrease in trend with an achievement of -9.5% decline compared to -8.2% across the region and to a -10.7% overall decline nationally
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Birmingham Teenage Executive Birmingham Teenage Executive GroupGroup
Government Office of West Midlands Review
• Improve strategic planning and partnership working through new executive group
• Refocusing of TP grant funding on prevention agenda
• Increase school nurse capacity linked to priority schools
• Pilot Targeted Youth Support in ten priority schools
• Performance management of termination providers
• Improvements in sexual health services for young people – improve access and take up of contraception
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Birmingham Teenage Executive Birmingham Teenage Executive GroupGroup
Teenage Pregnancy Grant is allocated to key area’s:-
• Targeted schools and locality work• Targeted Youth Support Team
• Vulnerable Young People’s Team• PRUs, LACES and Youth Offending Teams
• Condom distribution scheme• Training / workforce development• Termination follow up
• Active Case Management • Young Parents Housing Support
*Additional contraceptive funding has been awarded for schemes to improve knowledge and awareness and uptake of contraception