sex education

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Fewer than 5,000 schools delivered sex education last academic year

28/09/2021
Est. Reading: 1 minute

Less than 5,000 schools have been delivering the new Relationships and Sex Education and Health Education curriculum, it has emerged.

There are 24,000 primary and secondary state schools in the UK, but school standards minister Robin Walker has revealed that in the 2020/21 academic year, the new programme reached 3,800 schools, and provisional data for [...]

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Compulsory health education in schools from 2020

26/02/2019
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

New guidance supporting schools how to teach pupils about mental health has been launched by the Department for Education.

Education secretary Damian Hinds said the guidance will mean that from September 2020 all children in England will learn in schools how to look after their mental wellbeing with a focus on the link between physical and [...]

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Special Report: Relationships and Sex Education to be taught from September 2019

13/04/2017
Est. Reading: 6 minutes

As WillisPalmer launched WP-Risk last month to support social workers tackling child sexual abuse, the government made a very key announcement in tackling the problem from the other end of the spectrum in a preventive manner by announcing that Relationships and Sex Education and PSHE would be mandatory.

It is hoped that by making it [...]

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Sex education to be compulsory in schools

15/03/2017
Est. Reading: 3 minutes

All secondary schools in England will teach relationships and sex education (RSE), the government has announced.

The government has tabled amendments to the Children and Social Work Bill which will make it a requirement that all secondary schools in England teach RSE.

In addition, personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) will be [...]

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