Lucy Emmerson, senior development officer of the Sex Education Forum at the National Children's Bureau (NCB), told a Westminster Health Forum meeting last week that classrooms were the right place for disseminating information about sexual health.
She said lessons were ideal since it means young people receive consistent advice. "To achieve good quality sex and relationships education (SRE) in the classroom some principles must apply. Teachers need training," she said. "Personal, social and health education (PSHE), including SRE, needs to be recognised as a subject in the National Curriculum."
Sue Greenwood, a sex and relationship education development worker at Norfolk County Council, said: "I am wondering at what point the government will say PSHE should be statutory. Schools are not going to give priority to this subject unless it is statutory since there's so little room in the National Curriculum."
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