UK sex education needs more specialists - The Times 6th December 2007

Thursday, December 06, 2007

The notion that any teacher can teach personal, social and health education has already been disproved by Ofsted; now it is being challenged by the UK Youth Parliament In response to the letter headed “Sex education and teen pregnancy” (Dec 4) I wanted to write to reassure parents. Sex education is a compulsory part of the science curriculum and parents do not have the right to withdraw their children from this. In addition, relationship education is taught in non-statutory personal, social and health education (PSHE) classes, for which we give extensive support and guidance.

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