State launches strategy aimed at reducing crisis pregnancies

DELAYING early teenage sexual activity forms a key part of the State’s latest strategy to reduce the number of crisis pregnancies.

State launches strategy aimed at reducing crisis pregnancies

Action will also be taken to ensure that all secondary schools are fully implementing the Relationships and Sexuality Education Programme.

Research commissioned by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency and Department of Education found that one in 10 schools do not teach the sexual education programme at all and just a third were fully implementing it.

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