Sex and the CityBirmingham

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

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%

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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

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

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