I
n March 2016, teenage pregnancy data
published by the Office for National
Statistics (ONS, 2016a) marked a huge
milestone. England’s under-18 conception
rate is now 22.8/1000 15–17-year-old young
women, a fall of 51% since 1998, with the
number of conceptions dropping from
41089 to 21 282. This exceeds the goal of
the original Teenage Pregnancy Strategy,
and brings the under-18 and under-16
conception rates to the lowest level since
records began in 1969.