Monday, February 16, 2015

Sex education should be mandatory in all schools, MPs demand

Ministers scolded for lack of addressing inadequate teaching despite huge demand from teachers, parents and students

Sex education should be compulsory in all primary and secondary schools, with sufficient curriculum time devoted to the subject and specialist training for teachers, MPs have urged.

In a hard-hitting report published on Tuesday, the Commons education select committee comes down firmly on the side of campaigners who have long fought for sex and relationships education (SRE) to be made mandatory.

More than three-quarters of parents want primary schools to teach about the difference between safe and unwanted touch

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