POLL: Should sex education be compulsory in all primary schools?
A group of MPs are today calling for sex education to be made compulsory in all primary and secondary schools, but do you agree?
Have your say by voting in our poll on the right.
The Commons Education Committee’s inquiry was launched after Ofsted found more than a third of schools were failing to provide age-appropriate SRE.
In 2013, Ofsted reported that personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), of which SRE is a part, required improvement in 40% of schools.
The MPs said: “This situation would not be tolerated in other subjects, and yet the government’s strategy for improving PSHE is weak.
“There is mismatch between the priority that ministers claim they give to PSHE and the steps taken to improve its delivery in schools,” they added.
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