Children & Young People Now report that our colleagues who are arguing the case for better sex education have been continuing their campaign for PSHE to become statutory:
Lucy Emmerson, senior development officer of the Sex Education Forum at the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), told a Westminster Health Forum meeting last week that classrooms were the right place for disseminating information about sexual health.
She said lessons were ideal since it means young people receive consistent advice. “To achieve good quality sex and relationships education (SRE) in the classroom some principles must apply. Teachers need training,” she said. “Personal, social and health education (PSHE), including SRE, needs to be recognised as a subject in the National Curriculum.”
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