Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 81734

Pupils: Safety

Tabled: 13 October 2025
Answered: 23 October 2025

Question

Gregory Stafford

ConservativeFarnham and Bordon

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make it her policy to extend the teaching of sun safety to secondary schools.

Answer

Georgia Gould
As part of the revised relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance, published on 15 July, schools must now teach facts about safe and unsafe exposure to the sun, and how to reduce the risk of sun damage, including skin cancer. In sec...

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