In March, the education secretary Justine Greening announced that from September 2019 the teaching of sex education will be compulsory in all primary and secondary schools in England. Currently, sex education is only compulsory in council-run schools.
Under the move, children from the age of four will be taught about building healthy relationships and staying safe.
Being developed by the charity Coram Life Education (CLE) and funded by Ecclesiastical Insurance, the Relationships Education programme will comprise of lessons plans, activities and teacher and parent guidance along the themes of relationships and emotional health, body ownership, puberty and reproduction.
It will be available in September and rolled out through CLE’s SCARF programme – an online resource to support learning, which all schools can sign up to.
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