Teenage Pregnancy Sub Groups

The group is a subgroup to the Local Children’s Trust Board (LCTB), the overarching aim of which is to improve outcomes for all children and young people. The group may serve one or two LCTB.  The meetings will be held quarterly.

Aim of Subgroups

The local teenage pregnancy sub groups have a key responsibility to coordinate local implementation of the Kent teenage pregnancy strategy. The local knowledge held by the respective members of the groups allows them to take account of geographical and socio-economic difference in the local needs of the district.

Tasks

The members of the group will:

1. Oversee the development, implementation and evaluation of a local teenage pregnancy plan and ensure this reflects the county strategy. (ideally just 3-6- priorities)
2. Take account of variations in rates of teenage pregnancy, provision of services, local circumstances and the needs identified by local partners when targeting action.
3. Monitor and evaluate the implementation of the local plan to inform on-going planning and ensure effective use of local funds, including developing processes for data collection if appropriate
4. Ensure that the process of implementation is linked to the relevant strategic planning processes including the Local Children’s Trust Boards, Children and Young Peoples Plan, Local Strategic Partnerships, Children’s Centres, and other local infrastructure.
5. Provide a quarterly progress report to the LCTB on strategy implementation and rate changes.
6. Ensure that the best use is made of existing core services by promoting them to partners and service users.
7. Further interrogate the local datasets provided by the Public Health Observatory with the addition of local ‘soft’ data where available.
8. Actively promote joint working and act as champions of the Kent Teenage Pregnancy Strategy to communicate and promote the issues surrounding teenage pregnancy and the Strategy.

Group Membership

To include representation from:

• The Primary Care Trust
• Schools
• Children’s Social Services,
• KCC Youth and Community
• Local Youth organisations
• Connexions
• Children’s Centres
• Housing/Supporting People
• Healthy Schools
• Kent Youth Offending Team
• Kent 16+ Service, Catch 22
• Relevant Voluntary Sector
• Service Providers: School Nursing, Health Visiting, Family Planning, Midwifery, Health Promotion
• Other organisations and Agencies as invited by the group
  

Operation of the Group

Chair –  Strategic representative of any key organisation
Vice Chair –  Representative from any local organisation

Membership Model

• Preventative Manager
• Sexual Health Outreach and Clinic Representative
• Healthy Schools
• KCA Representative
• YOS Representative
• Social Services Representative/16+
• Young Parent Worker
• Children’s Centre
• School Representative
• Youth Service
• Appropriate voluntary organisations eg Homestart/YWCA
  

Local Teenage Pregnancy Action Groups

This document shows current members of the action group and their contact details.