YES - ANNE WEYMAN, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, FPA: All young people should receive sex and relationships education as part of personal, social and health education, which should be compulsory in schools. Currently, provision varies widely between schools. Such inequality is deeply unfair and benefits some pupils and not others. Schools should work in partnership with parents and pupils to ensure sex and relationships education meets their needs, which means taking into account the faith and culture of the local community.
NO - SUE RELF, MANAGER, COMMUNITY WISE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE, EASTBOURNE: Each school should be free to formulate its own policy and thinking on the topic. A head teacher should not be made to do anything if the governors, teachers and parents think it's not appropriate. The ideal people to give sex education are parents. They are free to impart their values and they know their children intimately.
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