Up to 160 teenage parents in four of the most deprived parts of England are set to be given childminding support to enable them to continue their education or job training.
The Teen Parent project is a three-year, 3m initiative to assist teenage parents in Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Blackpool and Grimsby.
A new NCMA Children Come First childminding network is being set up in each of the areas and 100 childminders are being recruited to provide up to 16 hours a week of free childcare.
The project's manager, Lynne Taylor, a former nursery nurse who worked for the NCMA as a regional development officer in the Midlands for the past five years, said, 'Evidence has shown that teenage parents are more likely to live in poverty and unemployment and to be trapped in it through lack of education, childcare and support. In the longer term their daughters have a higher chance of becoming teenage parents themselves if they do not receive the support they need.'
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