New guidance for schools on relationships and sex education could include age ratings to prevent children from “being taught contested and potentially damaging concepts,” according to the Department of Education (DfE).
On Friday, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said the review will “restore parents’ confidence, and make sure children are even better protected.”
Keegan also wrote to schools to remind them they are required by law to publish a relationships or a relationships and sex education (RSHE) policy and consult parents on it.
“I am deeply concerned about reports of inappropriate lessons being taught in schools,” she said.
“This urgent review will get to the heart of how RSHE is currently taught and should be taught in the future….