Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 44563
Relationships and Sex Education
Tabled: 7 April 2025
Answered: 29 April 2025
Question
Daisy Cooper
Liberal Democrat — St 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 McKinnellThe 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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