Last month education secretary Justine Greening announced that sex and relationships education (SRE) will be made compulsory in all secondary schools from 2019, while primary school teachers would deliver lessons on healthy relationships, but not sex, to all children.
Speaking in the House of Lords, education minister Lord Nash said primary schools would continue to cover sex as part of the science curriculum, but the decision whether to teach sex education separately to this will be left with individual schools.
"This is a very sensitive issue for many parents, as a number of noble Lords have said, and we need to respect that," Nash said.
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