A scheme to keep teenage pregancies down
British teenage pregnancy rates fluctuate but are the highest in Europe, and the government target is to halve the number of under 18's giving birth by 2010.
The Girls Friendly Society Project in Great Yarmouth, known as the GFS Platform, works with pregnant girls and young mothers. Many of the women are interested in voluntary work, and now, as part of their Young People's Development Project, the organisation has started a mentoring scheme.
They are twinned with girls aged 13-15, who are deemed to be at risk of becoming pregnant (as well as other possible problems such as being excluded from school, drug abuse and crime), and who have been referred by social workers, schools and youth offending services.
Caroline Swinburne went to Great Yarmouth to meet 15 year old Sharon, and her mentor Michelle, whose son Harvey is now 5.
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