Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have, if any, to publish a statement of their objectives for education in secondary schools in the maintained sector, in particular their objectives regarding academic achievement and preparing pupils for wellbeing in adult life and for their prospective roles in the workplace and as parents.

The government wants all young people to leave school prepared for life in modern Britain. This means ensuring that young people achieve academically, have the knowledge and skills to make safe and informed decisions, and develop personal and emotional wellbeing.

Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education supports the teaching of all subjects across the school curriculum. In the introduction to the national curriculum we made it clear that all schools should make provision for PSHE, drawing on examples of good practice.