The number of teenagers giving birth has dropped by 8% in one year, figures revealed today.
Data from the Health and Social Care Information Centre showed there were 30,790 such births in 2012-13, compared with 33,620 the previous year.
Thefigures also highlighted how more babies are born to women in the most deprived areas with a birth rate of 37.2 per 1,000 compared with 18.6 per 1,000 in the least deprived areas.
Natika Halil, of the Family Planning Association, said she welcomed the decrease in teenage pregnancies.
Butshe added that there was
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