Under the Children and Social Work Act 2017, the government committed to making relationships education (primary) and relationships and sex education (secondary) statutory in all schools, including local authority maintained schools, academies, free schools and independent schools. Health education will be compulsory for all state-funded schools, while independent schools are already required to teach this under the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014. In late February, the Department for Education published the outcomes from its consultation on the introduction on these different areas of education for primary and secondary schools in England. It also published draft regulations and statutory guidance for these subjects.
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