Head teacher's New Year honour for helping teenage mothers.

 Julie Stamper, founder of a school for teenage mothers is given New Year Honours for services to education.

She is rewarded for her role in Schoolgirl Mums' Unit, where she has helped hundreds of young mothers continue their education. Academics, governors, head teachers and the like received awards, but one in ten of those on the New Year's list is being honoured for services to education.

Julie's MBE for her role in the Mums' Unit in Hull rewards her work going back to 1989, where she was setting up the facility. Currently, she is head teacher of said facility.

Reaction: Education! Knowledge! About damn time my branch of profession got what some of what it deserved! But I digress. I find it very heartwarming to read that not only education itself is honoured, but the fact that this woman educated pregnant women. A lot of attention is going to these young mothers by means of television programs and news, but afterwards, they basically have to do everything by themselves. This unit supports them to fulfill their goals, even if they have a child, and make sure the child is taken care of as well.

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