Teenage Pregnancy Independant Advisory Group Annual Report published

The Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group's fifth annual report was published yesterday. Recommendations include making SRE a compulsory part of the national curriculum, sending advice packs to parents to help them talk to their children about sex and relationships and for young people to get easier access to contraception and sexual health services both in the community and in schools and colleges.

TPIAG chair, Gill Frances, highlighted the national success of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, which has seen rates fall more than 13% since 1998, making them the lowest for more than 20 years, but she said more needed to be done to accelerate the reduction.

"Many areas have made extraordinary progress since the start of the strategy but we need to see all local authorities scaling up their work to achieve consistently good results across the country," she said.

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Read the PSHE Association response.