Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 44563

Relationships and Sex Education

Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025

Question

Daisy Cooper

Liberal DemocratSt Albans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of making sexual health education a compulsory element of the statutory RHSE curriculum in (a) secondary schools and (b) colleges.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
The relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance already sets out that secondary schools should cover contraception, sexually transmitted infections, developing intimate relationships and resisting pressure to have sex. The guidance c...

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