Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 81731

Skin Cancer: Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education

Tabled: 13 October 2025

Answered: 23 October 2025

Question

Gregory Stafford

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help consistent teaching of (a) safe and unsafe exposure to the sun and (b) how to reduce the risk of sun damage as outlined in the mandatory PHSE curriculum for primary 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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