New tsar to tackle teen pregnancies; City adopts pioneering education and support initiative to cut escalating teenage pregnancy problem

From: The Sunday Herald | Date: July 21, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Scotland's first teenage pregnancy tsar is to be appointed to tackle the high rate of births among Glasgow schoolgirls, which is second only to Dundee.

The teenage pregnancy co-ordinator will be charged with reducing the rate of underage conceptions in Glasgow by half by 2010 and getting more teenage parents into education or employment to save them from a life of deprivation. Across Scotland, 9464 teenagers became pregnant in 2000, with 4000 terminations.

The co-ordinator, described as a "local champion", will pull together all the services in the area which have a role in preventing ...

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