COMPULSORY SEX AND RELATIONSHIPS EDUCATION
Under the Children, Schools and Families Bill, parents' right to remove their children from personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) is limited. The bill states that parents will not be able to opt out their child if the pupil is above the age of 15.
While the move was widely welcomed in the children's services sector, it has caused a storm of controversy in the media.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights will now consider whether the issue raises a conflict between the parents' right to respect for their religious and philosophical convictions in the education of their children and the rights of children to receive information important to their health and to their own freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
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