Positive Relationships: Teenage Parents - Showing the way

Nursery World, 15 November 2007

Teenagers are finding help to become better parents and jobseekers in a special service. Annette Rawstrone reports.

Being a teenage parent can be a bewildering and lonely experience. The Young People's Project in Ilford, Essex, aims to support vulnerable young mothers and fathers by helping them gain basic skills, access training programmes and develop parenting prowess. Central to the project is a 20- place day nursery. The project's chief executive, Rosie Payne, says, 'Sixty per cent of the teenage mothers have not finished mainstream education. They want to have the support and opportunities to progress, and we aim to empower...

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