As the issue of faith schools has often been debated on this site, and it’s been back in the news with the question of sex and relationship education, we’ve asked David Laws to explain the party’s approach to these issues: The recent Government climbdown over sex and relationship education in state funded faith schools has prompted
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 10th Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
• Government plans include sex education for all pupils • Catholic schools welcome clause on teaching 'values' Sex education is to be made compulsory in all state schools in England but faith schools will also be free to preach against sex outside marriage and homosexuality, under government proposals. The plans to make personal, social and health education (PSHE) compulsory fr...
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Guardian on 28th Apr 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
The sex education fetish so beloved of the political left is manifest in the news today that the government is expected to announce later that sex and relationship lessons will be made compulsory in primary and secondary schools in England. Yes sir - it's REAL important that we provide kids as young as five years olds with a basic insight into full-on sex, straight or gay, naturally. So a tea...
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ATangledWeb on 23rd Oct 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
A comprehensive program of sex education is desperately needed across the British schooling system. The current efforts to amend the embarrassing lack of effective classes in our schools are simply not good enough, and we are allowing young people to be educated not by qualified teachers in a safe teaching environment, but on the internet,
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 11th Jul 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
The government is accused of doing a U-turn over compulsory sex education in faith schools.
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BBCPolitics on 19th Feb 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Sex education is to be made a compulsory part of the national curriculum in primary and secondary schools under government plans to cut teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. A new personal, social and health education (PSHE) curriculum, expected by 2010, will include compulsory sex and relationships education as well as better advice warning children against drugs and alcohol. Childr...
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Guardian on 23rd Oct 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
HOW nice it is to find I'm not the only lunatic who thinks that sex education in schools is a disastrous policy and that it's parents who are best placed to decide what their children learn, when they learn it and how they go about learning it - Judged by its results – not a bad way of judging – sex education has been an utter failure. The increase in sex education ...
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ATangledWeb on 21st Sep 2008 (via atangledweb.squarespace.com)
The idea that the sex-ed curriculum is pure and neutral, in contrast to faith schools’ alleged bigotry, is nonsense.
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Spiked on 24th Feb 2010 (via spiked-online.com)
Sex education is to be made compulsory in all state schools under plans outlined in a government-commissioned report published today.
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ePolitix on 27th Apr 2009 (via rss.feedsportal.com)
SEX education should be made a compulsory part of the curriculum in all schools, a group of Welsh Labour MPs say today.
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WalesOnline on 25th Aug 2008 (via walesonline.co.uk)