Sex and Relationship Education

(asked on 24th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has plans to make LGBT-inclusive relationships and sex education compulsory in all schools.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 2nd October 2019

The Department is making relationships education compulsory for all primary pupils, as well as relationships and sex education compulsory for all secondary pupils and health education compulsory for all pupils in state-funded schools.

The statutory guidance, published in June 2019, states that all pupils should receive teaching on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) relationships during their school years. Secondary schools should include LGBT content in their teaching. Primary schools are also strongly encouraged, when teaching about different types of family, to include families with same sex parents.

The Department’s guidance recommends that LGBT specific content, when taught, is fully integrated in schools’ programme of study for this area of the curriculum. The guidance is available here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/805781/Relationships_Education__Relationships_and_Sex_Education__RSE__and_Health_Education.pdf.

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