Government announced renovating its teenage pregnancy strategy following facts that teenage pregnancies were not declining according to their expectations.

Office for National Statistics data stated that in 2008 about 41,325 teenage girls in England and Wales got pregnant that showed a 3.9 per cent decline from 2007. The data also showed a 7.6 per cent decline in pregnancies among girls U-16.

But the decrease is way below what the government had expected to achieve by 2010.

According to schools secretary, Ed Balls, it would not be easy to achieve the 50 per cent reduction.

He said, "It was a really ambitious target – it was a 50 per cent fall. I think it was right to set an ambitious target and it is going to be really hard to make that amount of fall," he said. "But it is not enough. I'm still worried about it and there is a lot more to do."

For 16 year old girls piloting one-to-one sexual health and contraception consultations, providing extended support for teachers as well as parents and improving school-based health services were the measures contained in the new teenage pregnancy strategy.

Children's minister Dawn Primarolo said, "These measures will give renewed focus to supporting young people before they become sexually active so that we can delay the age at which young people start having sex.”