Increase in number of teenage pregnancies across resort

More teenage pregnancies were recorded in Blackpool, the latest figures show.

- by Gazette Reporter

Figures from the Office for National Statistics show 60 pregnancies for women under 18 were recorded in Blackpool in 2022.

It was up from 46 the previous year, but down from 65 in 2020.

And it means there were 26 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 women under 18 in the resort - which was above the 14 per 1,000 average across England and Wales.

Teenage pregnancies across the two nations rose for the second year in a row in 2022, after eleven years of year-on-year decline before the pandemic.