William Wragg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by William Wragg on 2016-07-13.

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

Edward Timpson

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.