The education select committee called for evidence in April in response to concerns raised by sexual health experts and Ofsted, deciding it was time to investigate how and where SRE is being taught and what improvements might need to be made.
A report detailing the committee's findings is not expected to be published until later in the year, but key sexual health organisations are calling for SRE to be made an entitlement of statutory personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) in all schools.
SRE is compulsory in all local authority-run secondary schools, but not primary schools, academies or free schools. Academies and free schools must give "due regard" to the Department for Education's 2000 guidance - the most recent - but whether it is taught is at the discretion of head teachers.
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