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Relationships and Sex Education

Commons · Question 44563 · Tabled 7 Apr 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 29 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Daisy Cooper

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

Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 29 Apr 2025

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...