Children and young people

Medway's health promotion programme offers various resources and training to professionals working in health promotion.

Network meetings

These are for those who work with young people in Medway in the areas of sexual health and teenage pregnancy. It is an opportunity to share good practice, get support for new projects and get updates about a range of things, including training opportunities. To be added to the circulation list for the network, please use the contact details at the foot of this page.

Key projects

• Local sexual health services
• C-card scheme
• Emergency contraception scheme
• Living, Loving, Learning
• Young parents

Resources

A selection of resources is available from the Public Health Promotion Resource Centre:

• Medway multi-agency teenage pregnancy referral form (pdf 23KB)
• The professional's guide to young people’s services in Medway: Medway Directory of Services for Young People (pdf 208KB).
• Medway multi-agency sex and relationships education (SRE) policy (pdf 164 KB)
• SRE in the youth service (pdf 88KB)
• Enabling young people to access contraceptive and sexual health advice: guidance for youth support workers (pdf 212KB)
• Guidelines for good practice in supported accommodation for young parents (pdf 92KB)
• Making it happen - working together for children, young people and families (pdf 1,800KB)
• Reaching out to pregnant teenagers and teenage parents (pdf 1,000KB)
• SRE and parents (pdf 752 KB)
• SRE guidance for teachers and schools (pdf 184 KB)
• Sure Start children's centres practice guidance (pdf 3,230KB)
• Talk to your children about SRE: support for parents (pdf 60KB)
• Teenage pregnancy and health scrutiny: a briefing paper (pdf 212KB)
• Teenage pregnancy: summary of final report 2005 (pdf 432KB)
• Teenage pregnancy: final report 2005 (pdf 6,680KB)
• Working together to safeguard children (pdf 728KB)
• Young people, pregnancy and social exclusion (pdf 756KB)
• You're Welcome quality criteria (pdf 443KB)

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Other useful information

• Partner agencies - working with Medway Teenage Pregnancy Programme
• Useful websites

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