The campaign to make sex education a compulsory part of the National Curriculum has been boosted by a survey suggesting overwhelming public support.
The poll by sexual health charity Brook found that 86 per cent of adultsthink sex and relationships education should form a compulsory part ofthe curriculum. And, of the 1,000 respondents, 94 per cent thought thatsex education should be expanded to include the emotional aspects ofrelationships, as well as contraception.
Jan Barlow, chief executive of Brook, said: "It is encouraging to seesuch a high level of public support for policies that could help reducerates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection."
