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03/03/2010

Victoria is live from The Gap Project in the West Midlands at an assisted housing unit for teenage mums. It's home to 30 young girls and some of their partners.

Victoria is live from The Gap Project in the West Midlands at an assisted housing unit for teenage mums. It's home to 30 young girls and some of their partners.

Last September Gordon Brown said that instead of giving teen mums council houses and flats, they should be put into a "network of supervised homes" like Gap. He said that there were 200,000 teenage pregnancies, most of them unwanted, and a supervised system of help and support may discourage those who thought getting pregnant would be "given the keys to a council flat and be left on their own".

Victoria finds out what it's like to live in one of these units and what the young women there think is the best way to deal with teen mums in future.

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Wed 3 Mar 2010 10:00

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