Busymummy - Advice for Teenage Parents


	Connexions Service Connexions is for you if you are 13-19, living in England and wanting advice on getting to where you want to be in life. It also provides support up to the age of 25 for young people who have learning difficulties or disabilities (or both). Connexions is a modern public service and young people are actively involved in its design and delivery. The service is managed locally by Connexions Partnerships that bring together all the key youth support services.

	AQA The Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) is the largest of the three English exam boards. We set and mark public exams such as GCSEs and A Levels, as well as other qualifications.

	Teenage Pregnancy Unit The Teenage Pregnancy Unit is a cross-Government Unit located within the Department for Education and Skills which was set up to implement the Social Exclusion Unit's report on Teenage Pregnancy. This website contains information about the Government's Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, including guidance issued by the Teenage Pregnancy Unit as well as relevant publications from other Government Departments. There is also information about local implementation of the strategy and details about the Independent Advisory Group on Teenage Pregnancy. Local Teenage Pregnancy Co-ordinators may also logon and communicate with each other online.

	Family Planning Association improve the sexual health of all people throughout the UK. We believe that everyone has the right to make informed choices about sexual health. Everyday we work to ensure that anyone can get the high quality information and services they need. Read our Annual Reports:

	Care to Learn Welcome to Care to Learn for young parents. You can claim Care to Learn funding if you are under 20 and: start a course of learning or training in a school, college or as a trainee with a work based learning provider that receives some public funding; are caring for your own child(ren) - fathers are also eligible if they are the main carer; are living in England; and use a registered childcare provider. You can apply for funding for your childcare. Applications can be made now for courses that start at any time.

	Brook Brook Advisory Centres - commonly known just as Brook - is the only national voluntary sector provider of free and confidential sexual health advice and services specifically for young people under 25. Brook is a registered charity, and has 40 years' experience of providing professional advice through specially trained doctors, nurses, counsellors, and outreach and information workers to over 200,000 young people each year.

	Sure Start Sure Start is a Government programme which aims to achieve better outcomes for children, parents and communities by: increasing the availability of childcare for all children improving health and emotional development for young children supporting parents as parents and in their aspirations towards employment.

	Home-Start Home-Start is the UK's leading family support charity. Through a network of more than 15,000 trained parent volunteers we support thousands of parents who are struggling to cope. Our families need support for many reasons including post-natal illness, disability, bereavement, the illness of a parent or child, or social isolation. Parents supporting other parents: it's a simple idea that really works.

	Every Child Matters Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19. The Government's aim is for every child, whatever their background or their circumstances, to have the support they need to: Be healthy; Stay safe; Enjoy and achieve; Make a positive contribution; Achieve economic well-being. This means that the organisations involved with providing services to children - from hospitals and schools, to police and voluntary groups - will be teaming up in new ways, sharing information and working together, to protect children and young people from harm and help them achieve what they want in life. Children and young people will have far more say about issues that affect them as individuals and collectively.

	Drug Watch Over-the-counter medications account for as many as one in 10 birth defects in the children of women who have taken the medications during pregnancy. Many prescription drugs, such as Accutane, pose similar dangers as well as additional side effects such as an increased risk of liver failure and gastrointestinal disorders. Our site provides up-to-date information about the side effects of common prescription and over-the-counter medications to help educate consumers and patients.

	The Naughty Seat Positive Parenting Products & child behavioural aids. Products include a Time Out range, and large selection of reward charts, star charts, behaviour charts, reward stickers, certificates and badges to encourage good behaviour and healthy eating.