The Accord Coalition has reacted with dismay to news that the government will not consider making Sex and Relationships Education part of the National Curriculum.
Quality school Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) is vital to help combat the alarming rise in STIs among the young, says inclusive schools campaign Accord.
In argument we attack and defend on the basis of positions we know and hold. Conversations are determined by questions in which we inquire also about what we don’t, and can entertain the new, says Martin Marty. Nowhere is such an approach needed more than in the vociferously contested debate about sexuality.
A disagreement has broken out between equalities, education and children's groups and Government minister Ed Balls over the Children, Schools and Families Bill’s amendments concerning Personal, Social and Health Education.
The Children's Rights Alliance for England have condemned a new Government amendment to its own Children, Schools and Families Bill, describing its restrictions on sex education as discriminatory.
The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing has called on the US administration to end federal funding for abstinence-only programmess and commit to comprehensive sexuality education.
The Methodist Church in Britain has welcomed the UK government’s decision to make education in schools about sex and relationships compulsory for children of all ages.