In its fifth annual report, the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group recommended that "parents are sent advice packs on sex and relationships which mirror what is being taught in school, so they feel involved in the process and feel better equipped to start conversations at home".
The report also reiterated the group's long-standing calls for sex education to be made a compulsory part of the National Curriculum: "This is the fifth time the group has called for sex education, as part of personal, social and health education, to be a statutory subject and it will keep making that recommendation until this objective is achieved."
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