The review will be chaired by head teacher Sir Alasdair MacDonald with a remit to overhaul the current PSHE curriculum to ensure it covers a wide range of health issues, including sex and relationship advice and information about drug and alcohol misuse.
Although the Department for Children, Schools and Families has not said explicitly that pupils and parents will be consulted, a statement does say that "pupils needs and parents' values" will be taken into account.
The move to make PSHE compulsory follows two reviews into sex education and drugs misuse, the Review of Sex and Relationships Education in Schools and a report by the Advisory Group on Drug and Alcohol Education. Both highlighted the importance of the lessons to ensuring children have, a "healthy and well rounded" education.
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