The Office for Standards in Education published a report clearly labelled Personal, Social and Health Education in Secondary Schools. The chief inspector for schools, David Bell, went out of his way to stress the need to develop children and young people's values and attitudes. He said greater attention should be paid to creating a broad PSHE programme including mental health, parenting education and financial awareness.
It was no good. Papers know sex when they see it. Or when they think they see it. The Times reported the story in a newsbrief headlined "Sex on curriculum". Its sister tabloid, The Sun, went for a more direct "Schools' sex blast". It then told its readers that: "Schools are failing in their legal duty to give kids proper sex education, a report warns today." The BBC called it: "Schools 'ignoring' sex education". The Guardian headline was "Kelly under pressure to make sex education compulsory".
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