In a letter to chair of the education select committee Neil Carmichael, Morgan said that although making PSHE statutory would give it equal status with other subjects, the government is concerned that this would "do little to tackle the most pressing problems with the subject, which are to do with the variable quality of its provision".
"As such, while we will continue to keep the status of PSHE in the curriculum under review, our immediate focus will be on improving the quality of PSHE teaching in our schools," she added.
Morgan's letter accompanied the government's response to a report into PSHE by the education select committee that was published in February 2015 and called for the subject to be made compulsory.
The committee criticised the government for its initial response, which was published in July 2015, labelling it “feeble”, claiming that it did not even acknowledge the recommendation.
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