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Teen Angel Babysitters (TAB) was launched in November 2006 when the founder, Anita Taylor, recognised that babysitting was a very popular choice of employment for young people but many had little or no basic skills to cope in often difficult situations. She decided that something had to be done about this so designed and wrote a course which covered the important aspects of safe babysitting. ASDAN, the Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network, immediately saw the huge benefit of this course and awarded it their accreditation. Since then, TAB has been taught in schools, pupil referral units, community centres and through Girl Guides, giving teenagers the skills and confidence to babysit safely.

Whilst teaching this course, Anita used simulator babies and saw what a huge impact they had on the teenagers. It led to her purchasing more babies so that they could be available to hire out during weekends and holidays. This was how Virtual Baby Vision was born.

It was while she was teaching the TAB course that Anita saw another opportunity to use the babies, and that was in teaching sexual health issues. As this topic fell neatly into the school curriculum under Personal, Social and Health Education, she was soon in great demand in schools. The course, teen Choice, has also attracted social workers, youth leaders and satellite centre staff. The purchase of three more virtual babies, two showing the different effects of negligence during pregnancy and another showing the damage which can be done by abusing a baby, completed her virtual family.

Teen Angel Babysitters, Virtual Baby Vision and teen Choice are all subsidiaries of teen Awareness.