Sex education is set to become part of the National Curriculum fromSeptember 2011 under plans to make personal, social and health education(PSHE) compulsory in schools. It is hoped the move will help tackleteenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among youngpeople.
But CYP Now has learned that a consultation due to end next Friday (24July), will raise concerns that sex education will have minimal impactunless the lessons are made compulsory.
Sir Alasdair Macdonald's review of PSHE, published in April, recommendedthat the existing right of parental withdrawal should be maintained forthe new classes. But leading figures in the sector have spoken outagainst this in the consultation, fearing that scores of parents willwithdraw children on religious or moral grounds.
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