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Teenage parents in education

Support services

We make every effort to let you know of specialist advisers so that you receive information appropriate to your personal circumstances.

• Health services
  Working with the local National Health Service trust, midwives, health visitors and school nurses. Visits arranged to the Labour, Delivery, Recovery, Postnatal (LDRP) Units at local hospitals.
  Health Services in Calderdale|
• Careers advice
  With your current school adviser or the designated Special Educational Needs adviser for informed post-16 planning. Calderdale and Kirklees Careers|
• Access to funding for childcare
  Care to Learn - Learning and Skills Council (LSC) Funding.
  DFE: Care to Learn|
• Childcare in Calderdale
  Early Years and Childcare in Calderdale - information about convenient locations of nurseries and childminders.
  Choosing childcare
• Benefit advice
  in conjunction with Jobcentre Plus|.
• Housing
  For the post-16 student.
• Connexions
  14-19 years - supporting the removal of barriers to learning, training and learning.
  Connexions|

Peer group support

We offer teenage parents the opportunity to meet other young parents from across the Calderdale area.

Bring a parent, partner or friend and join us. Chat, swap info, activities, coursework support, creche, refreshments.

• We meet each month during term time - out of school hours. Beverley Place Resource Centre, Beverley Place, Boothtown, Halifax, HX3 6LR.

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