The government needlessly dropped legislation to make personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) statutory, after neglecting to consult the Liberal Democrats, a senior politician has claimed.
Baroness Walmsley, Liberal Democrat spokeswoman for children and families in the House of Lords, told CYP Now that her party would have supported Labour's attempts to make PSHE statutory.
Together, the two parties could have overruled the Conservatives' objections to the legislation, which formed part of the Children, Schools and Families Bill.
But, in a rush to push the bill through before Parliament dissolved last week, government caved in to pressure to drop the plans.
"The sad thing is that the government was committed to it," Walmsley explained. "But the Conservatives got them to drop it."
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