THE BIG QUESTION

Will plans to enable schoolgirls in one local authority to request the morning-after pill by text message impact on the number of teenage pregnancies?

Will the initiative help reduce teenage pregnancy rates?

In a scheme to be piloted in Oxfordshire, female students at six schools will have the opportunity to ask for emergency contraception if they have had unprotected sex. Child protection staff will step in if any girl aged between 11 and 13 uses the service.

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Will the initiative help reduce teenage pregnancy rates?

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ICE PICKS a round up of Project News

Community Alcohol Intervention

Specialist health workers recruited

ICE has recruited specialist health workers as part of a groundbreaking new approach to a social marketing project, which raises awareness about the health risks of excessive drinking and helps people to move into healthier long-term behaviours.

Specialist health workers recruited

The ICE team delivering the project, Laura Black and Jay Mannhart, are working in specific communities across North Liverpool to help assess people’s alcohol intake and raise awareness about the effect of drinking too much.

On a day to day basis, the Community Alcohol Intervention Workers offer free and non-judgemental information and advice, and provide alcohol screenings in a range of local community venues, enabling a person’s drinking habits to be assessed as ‘safe’ ‘hazardous’ or ‘harmful’ and highlighting any potential risks to their health.

It’s all part of work ICE is doing to support ASSIST, a new alcohol awareness scheme which is being spearheaded by Liverpool Primary Care Trust and funded to promote sensible drinking and help tackle the rising levels of alcohol related health problems in target areas of the city.

Tackling Smoking Cessation

Supporting behaviour change for smokers

A report produced by ICE will be used by Middlesbrough PCT and Middlesbrough Council to help tackle the issues surrounding young female smokers aged 12 to 16 years.

Supporting behaviour change for smokers

The insight phase report consists of desk-based, qualitative and quantitative data which explores what drives current behaviour and the factors that would positively influence a change in behaviour.

This is just one of a number of smoking-relating projects being undertaken by ICE, and as part of an ongoing commitment to delivering a ‘full service’ solution, nine team members recently took part in Smoking Intervention Training. This will inform their ongoing work facilitating focus groups across the country.