Academies: Sex and Relationship Education

(asked on 13th July 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Education for All Bill will require academies to provide sex and relationships education.


Answered by
Edward Timpson Portrait
Edward Timpson
This question was answered on 25th July 2016

All schools should offer high quality, age-appropriate sex and relationship education, and build a curriculum that meets the needs of all their students. Sex and relationship education is compulsory in all maintained secondary schools. Academies do not have to teach sex and relationship education but many choose to do so as part of their statutory duty to provide a broad and balanced curriculum.

The content of any forthcoming Bill will be announced in due course.

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