Depending on your age and circumstances (whether you live at home and if your parents can help with childcare) and where you live (for example in a Sure Start Project area) there are a number of sources of help.

The best advice is to talk about what you want to do with a SureStart Plus or Teenage Pregnancy Adviser, a Connexions Adviser, your Health Visitor or a teacher or lecturer from your school or college.

Contact details for your local SureStart Plus or Teenage Pregnancy Adviser are:

• If you live in Hartlepool contact the SureStart Plus Adviser on 01429 239926
  
• If you live in the Middlesbrough area contact the SureStart Plus Adviser on 01642 245539
  
• If you live in the Redcar, Guisborough, East Cleveland, Eston, Grangetown, South Bank or Teesville area please phone the Teenage Pregnancy Adviser on 01642 479324
  
• If you live in the Stockton, Billingham, Thornaby or Yarm area please phone the Teenage Pregnancy Support Service on 01642 527238

While you are at school or college you will probably be entitled to either the full cost of childcare - or help with paying for childcare.

If you rejoin a training scheme (which you had started before you got pregnant) after your baby is born, they will pay your childcare costs if you could not continue your training without this help.

If you have a job (for at least 16 hours a week) you may be entitled extra Working Families Tax Credit to help with the cost of childcare. The amount you get will depend on how much you earn, how many hours you work, how many children you have and whether or not you are paying for registered childcare. You can find out about Working Families Tax Credit from the helpline on 0800 597 5976.

It sounds complicated - but it's worth trying as there are now lots of schemes to help you with the cost of childcare so that you can get back to college or into a job or a training scheme.