Sex education is set to become part of the National Curriculum from September 2011 but Diana Johnson, parliamentary under-secretary of state for schools, is keen for the government to cement its commitment to the subject.
She also said she would prefer to see the programme, currently called personal, social and health education (PSHE), renamed "life skills".
"I think it is really important to get this taught in schools and at a good level across the country," Johnson said at a fringe meeting at the Labour conference in Brighton. "Some schools teach it very well but some don't teach it very well at all.
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