THE number of teenage pregnancies in the Ilminster area has dropped since 1998, bucking the national trend.
According to figures from Somerset County Council, there has been an 18% decline in the number of teenage pregnancies in Somerset since 1998.
In 2003 the conception rate in Somerset for under 18s was 32% per 1,000 females, compared to 42% in the rest of England.
In 1999 the national teenage pregnancy strategy was launched and in Somerset a strategy was launched in 2001 aiming to halve the under 18 conception rate and establish a firm downward trend in the under-16 conception rate by 2010.
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