Schools: Sex and Relationships Education Debate

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Crime: Youth Justice

Schools: Sex and Relationships Education

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Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Regulations 2011
Monday 24th October 2011

(12 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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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?

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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.

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