Frinton: School will offer morning after pill

11:28am Thursday 10th January 2008

Students at a school in Frinton are being given condoms and the morning after pill as part of a new scheme to cut the high rates of teenage pregnancy in Tendring.

Tendring Technology College has set up an initiative that will see some youngsters issued a limited number of condoms.

They will also get a card which will allow them to receive up to three lots of additional supplies from pharmacies.

If students require more they could be brought before the school nurse for counselling.

Emergency contraception, in the form of the morning after pill, could also be administered following an assessment to girls who have had unprotected sex.

Principal Caroline Haynes said the idea comes from the North East Essex Primary Care Trust, which wants to cut the high teenage pregnancy rates and increasing levels of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the district.

The college admits 14 to 18 year olds.