Young people who can talk openly about sex with their parents tend to delay having sex and are more likely to use contraception when they do. Talking to children about sex Talking about sex to your child doesn’t mean you are encouraging them to have sex. The best way to start talking about sex is to: start when your child is young, as waiting before your child reaches puberty can make it awk...

A pilot scheme allowing parents to check with police if someone close to their children has a history of child sex offending is being expanded.

Children should be taught about sex ‘in a moral way’, according to Coronation Street's 17-year-old Sacha Parkinson, as a Christian charity launches three short videos which graphically communicate the impact of sex on others. The above video highlights some of the personal, financial and emotional costs of sex where there is no long-term commitment to the other partner. In this vi...

So, when your child reaches six years old, is that the right time to start having "conversations about sex"? The country’s biggest sexual health charity has published a sex education pamphlet for six-year-olds to encourage earlier discussion of the facts of life.  The 12-page comic-style booklet, which will be distributed to schools, asks children to identify the physical differences be...

I am quite frankly appalled that children as young as 5 will be taught sex education. The excuse? Less teenage pregnancies when they're older. Well excuse my French but what bullshit! Children do not need to know about sex at that age, they wont be having it for ten more years so why on earth would they need to know about it then? It will have the reverse effect teaching children (and possibl...

It should come as no surprise to anyone that many children are sexually abused or assaulted by other children. That is what the "Sex Education" industry wants. No one in this country over the age of seven or eight can now be in the slightest doubt as to where babies come from, and when condoms are now all but thrown at even very young children, the rates of underage pregnancies and STIs continue t...

The news that Ed Balls will force 15 year olds to have at least one year of mandatory sex education in schools has re-opened that old debate – who should provide children’s sex education? Personally, I doubt whether teachers or parents are better suited to the task, as both use either clinical candour, which children find hilarious, or a stream of inscrutable euphemisms. The wider deba...

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 ...

Pilot project aims to give families greater protection from known sex offenders.

The government is urging parents to talk more openly to their children about sex.