Is this Coronation Street's most shocking story line ever? Schoolgirl Faye will learn she is pregnant aged just 12
- ITV soap planning new plot in which Faye Windass, 12, falls pregnant
- She is expected to become the youngest ever mother on the ITV soap
- Programme has previously featured Sarah-Louise Platt pregnant at 13
Bosses at Coronation Street are reportedly planning a new storyline in which Faye Windass (pictured) falls pregnant
Coronation Street bosses are planning a new storyline in which a schoolgirl will learn she is pregnant at the age of 12.
The ITV soap is understood to be developing the new plot in which Faye Windass, played by Ellie Leach, 13, falls pregnant, for later this year.
She is expected to become the youngest ever mother on the show, which previously featured Sarah-Louise Platt, played by Tina O'Brien, discovering she was pregnant at the age of 13 in 2000, according to The Sun.
Norman Wells, of the Family Education Trust, has warned scriptwriters needed to 'take great care' when dealing with such topics.
He said: 'One of the problems of giving prominence in a soap to life experiences that are extremely rare is that it can distort people's perception of reality and give the impression that such experiences are far more common than they really are.
'In spite of the fact that teenage pregnancy rates in the UK are high compared with many other parts of Western Europe, they are still thankfully rare - and pregnancies in 12 year-old girls are much, much rarer still.
'Scriptwriters and production companies need to take great care that in their desperation to attract high viewer ratings they do not normalise behaviour that is both illegal and damaging to impressionable children.'
A Coronation Street source has told The Sun: 'This is bound to be a controversial storyline but the programme has a history of handling difficult subject matters in a sensitive and considerate way.'
The show has previously featured Sarah-Louise Platt, played by Tina O'Brien, discovering she was pregnant at the age of 13 in 2000
The character of Faye Windass was introduced to the show in 2011 as the adopted daughter of Anna Windass.
She was involved in a controversial storyline in 2012 when the soap sparked a storm of protest from viewers with an episode which showed the schoolgirl being smacked.
Hundreds took to web forums and Twitter to express outrage at the scene which featured Faye being hit by her adoptive mother’s boyfriend Owen Armstrong.
The builder, played by Ian Puleston-Davies, loses his temper in the scene after the then ten-year-old schoolgirl deliberately poisons the fish in his pond.
He is seen whacking Faye on the back of the legs as she winces in pain.
Faye Windass, played by Ellie Leach, is expected to become the youngest ever mother on the show
In February MailOnline reported how teenage pregnancy rates had fallen to their lowest levels since the 1960s.
Figures released by the Office for National Statistics showed that conceptions among under-18s dropped by 10 per cent in 2012.
Reasons for the sudden decrease in pregnancies include more girls staying in further education and the growing ‘stigma’ of teenage motherhood, officials said.
In April it was reported a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were believed to have become Britain's youngest parents after she give birth to a 7lb 4oz baby girl.
At 12 years and three months, she was five months younger than the previous youngest UK mother.
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