Schools: Sex and Relationships Education Debate
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Baroness Sharples
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Schools: Sex and Relationships Education
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Monday 24th October 2011
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Baroness Sharples
Can my noble friend explain why children here go to school at the age of five when in virtually every other country they go to school at the age of six or seven?
Lord Hill of Oareford
I am not sure that I can provide an easy answer to that, other than to say that practices vary from country to country in all sorts of different ways.