The claim was made last week by Lynne Taylor, manager of the National Childminding Association's (NCMA) Teen Parent project at a conference on Integration and best value for children's services, organised by the NCMA.
The Teen Parent scheme, which began in autumn 2001, is a three-year initiative funded jointly by the Department for Education and Skills and the European Social Fund. It has created four Children Come First approved childminding networks in Barking and Dagenham, Blackpool, Greenwich, and north-east Lincolnshire. Each provides free childcare placements for teenage parents to help combat social exclusion, by enabling them to continue their education, and eventually help them get jobs. At present, there have been 54 out of 100 potential placements.
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