The money will be used to expand Speakeasy, a course for parents run by the family planning association, as well as producing a new advice leaflet to be distributed by 3,000 pharmacies in England.
According to research commissioned for the Department for Schools and Families (DCSF), when parents talk to their children about sex and relationships, the children are more likely to have sex later and to use contraception when they start having sex.
The research also revealed that four in 10 teenagers said they receive little or no information from their parents, with 86 per cent of parents agreeing there would be fewer teenage pregnancies if more parents talked to their children about sex.
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