An amendment to the Children and Social Work Act 2017 will require all schools to teach relationships and sex education (RSE) from September 2019.
It also paves the way for the introduction of compulsory personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education at some point in the future.
The amendment represented a significant shift in the government's stance on PSHE education - for a number of years, it had resisted calls for the subject to be given statutory status despite mounting evidence of the benefits this would bring.
A host of official inquiries, education experts and children's charities had concluded that compulsory PSHE education offered the best way to ensure children and young people are taught the life skills needed for the 21st century.
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