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April 2011 |
Parents with Prospects DVD
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Our new 6 minute DVD is now available to play from our homepage. The DVD gives a snapshort of the PWP programme during a session, learners give their comments and our tutor explains what is happening. This is a Surestart Children's Centre in Gloucestershire.
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January 2011 |
The Graham Allen Independent Report
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Early Intervention: The Next Steps
This independent Report highlights and reinforces previous findings that the first years of a child's life are vitally important to his or her life chances. The cycle of teenage pregnancy can be broken..
"Early intervention to promote social and emotional development can significantly improve mental and physical health, educational attainment and employment opportunities. ealy Intervention can also help to prevent criminarl behaviour (especially violent behaviour), drug and alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy".
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December 2010 |
Frank Field Report The Foundation Years:
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This is an excellent report and well worth reading.... Page 7 para 10... "Children's Centres should ensure all new parents are encouraged to take advantage of a parenting course. Midwives and health visitors should work closely with Centres and ensure a consistency of service is provided, with continuity between the more medical pre birth services and increasingly educational post natal work...."
There are many more references to the importance of parenting courses - accredited courses like YMTB and PWP have the added advantage of provding a pathway back into education, training and, at an appropriate time work.
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August 2010 |
YMTB - PWP Early Intervention
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Parents wth Prospects and YMTB courses contribute to reducing unplanned pregnancies. Third, fourth and additional pregnancies can be a result of lack of motivation, aspiration and educational opportunities. The courses help to reduce barriers around career posibilities. Once engaged in learning parents and babies benefit.
Between 1998 and 2008, the under-18 conception rate
fell from 46.6 per thousand women aged 15 to 17 in 1998,
to 40.5 per thousand in 2008. If the conception rate had
remained at its 1998 level, this would have equated to
42,000 extra conceptions, of which 22,000 would have
resulted in births. While it is not possible to attribute all of the reduction in teenage pregnancy rates directly to the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, it is clear that it has yielded a wide range of savings. Reducing teenage pregnancy rates cuts abortion and maternity expenses as well as costs associated with supporting vulnerable teenage parents, including work to improve outcomes for them and their children, payments of income support, housing and child benefit.
Every 1 pound invested in contraception saves the NHS an
estimated 11 pounds. There is a strong economic rationale for continuing prevention work around teenage pregnancy and also for supporting young parents to prevent them being not in education, employment or training (NEET).
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April 2009 |
New Qualifications and Credit Framework
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We are delighted to announce our new partnership with Edexcel. This exciting development sees YMTB (Young Parents to Be) and Parents with Prospects being available as an integrated antenatal and parenting award structure on the Qualifications and Credit Framework from September 2009.
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April 2009 |
Edexcel & NCLP QCF Press Release
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Please click on the link below to view our joint press release.
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http://www.edexcel.com/Aboutus/press-room/press-releases/Pages/ViewItem.aspx?filter=1084
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July 2009 |
National Academy of Parenting Practitioners
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Parents with Prospects is included on the NAPP Commissioning Toolkit
The YMTB course has been fully evaluated by NAPP and is also included on the Toolkit.
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November 2007 |
YMTB Skills for Life Competence Award
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Statistics
The YMTB Skills for Life Competence Award was delivered as a non accredited course until 2002
All Providers were running the accredited course by November 2003
Since accreditation 3,111 learners have been registered for the YMTB - Skills for Life Competence Award
In the 12 month period August 2006 - August 2007, 552 learners were registered
From these registrations 467 learners have achieved the YMTB award
42 learners are working towards achievement
Only 7.8% (43) of learners have withdrawn
The overall achievement rate to date is 84.6%. This figure will increase over the next few months as learners continue to achieve
Young dads to be also achieve the YMTB Award (at present our records do not differentiate between male and female learners). Many centres support young dads to be who are included in the sessions
On average the learners have achieved 7 units per portfolio
There are now 40 Providers nationally
Portfolios are assessed, internally and externally verified to level 1 standard.
Each year achievement levels have improved as tutors become more familiar with the resources, resources and tutor training are improved and long-term portfolios (school re-integration) are completed.
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July 2007 |
YMTB cited in multi-agency guide
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Multi-agency working to support pregnant teenagers -A midwifery guide to partnership working with Connexions and other agencies.
This Guide has been written with the aim of improving outcomes for pregnant teenagers and new teenage parents, particularly those under 18. See pages 16 and 19
This guide is available to downloaded from the following website:
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www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/resources-and-practice/IG00211/
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July 2007 |
YMTB & PWP cited as best practice
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Teenage Parents Next Steps: Guidance for Local Authorities and Primary Care Trusts - Case studies on pages 29 and 57.
Beverley Hughes states in her introduction "In chapter 6, we set out our vision for what we want each local area to provide for teenage parents and what we will do nationally to support them to deliver more tailored and responsive services. It does not place new burdens on services, but looks in particular at how key mainstream services - midwifery and health visiting services, Children's Centres, Targeted Youth Support services, Reintegration officers and Housing officers - can tailor the support they provide so that it better meets young parents' needs. It makes the case for an integrated approach to supporting young parents, with support from different agencies brokered through a lead professional."
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www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/resources-and-practice/IG00250/
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April 2009 |
New Edexcel Award Structure
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We are delighted to advise our providers that the qualifications YMTB and Parents with Prospects will shortly be available through Edexcel on the Qualfications and Credit Framework.
Registered Learners will be able to continue achieving their NCFE qualifications.
The new Edexcel QCF qualifications will be available with effect from September 2009. These new qualifications integrate YMTB - Skills for Life Competence and Parents with Prospects into an exciting award structure building on and enhancing our existing programmes
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