The Telegraph reports:
The Government move was revealed following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by The Sunday Telegraph, with a number of local authorities receiving letters from the government encouraging them to get teenage girls to have the injections or implants.
Local authorities with particularly high rates of teenage pregnancy, including Bristol, Manchester and Nottingham, were told it was “essential” to increase the uptake of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) amongst young girls.
But Dr Trevor Stammers, a GP and a lecturer in healthcare ethics, said it was unlikely girls would use infection-stopping condoms as well as injections or implants.
He said: ‘It may well decrease teenage pregnancies but it will not do anything except perhaps fuel STIs.’
