Action on Rights for Children, which filed the complaint, believes the Pan-London Protocol for Sexually Active Under-18s infringes privacy laws.
The code encourages a range of youth professionals, including the police, to share information about teenagers who are, or who are likely to be, sexually active.
But Terri Dowty, policy director of Action on Rights for Children, said that monitoring would be counterproductive. "Any under-18 in a relationship will be investigated and we are worried this will become part of police guidance," she said.
Val Buxton, head of policy and development at Brook, said the sexual health charity supported the complaint: "There is an issue of young people being put off accessing services if they think their details are referred to the police or other people."
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