On the BBC / Nu Labour alliance’s R4 ‘Today’ program they are doing the sex education thing to death. Pointing out that more under 18’s get pregnant in the UK than elsewhere in Europe, the debate is, apparently, do we need; Compulsory sex education More compulsory sex education Even more compulsory sex education. This is a perfect example of

Data was released this week showing a steep increase in the number of young people in this country with sexually transmitted infections. The usual debate has ensued, relating to whether this is due to weaknesses in sex education, or whether, on the contrary, it is to do with too much sex education.

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 ...

Two Conservative MPs, John Bercow and Robert Key, have joined with Labour and Liberal Democrats MPs in calling for "appropriate sex and relationship education in every primary and secondary school by putting personal, social and health education on a statutory...

There is some considerable – and I might also say deliberately contrived – confusion as to the question of whether tory MP Nadine Dorries’ abstinence bill amounts to the promotion of abstinence-only sex education. To understand why, we need first to be clear about what is actually included in the National Curriculum under sex education as a mandatory element – and everythin...

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...

2:43pm: It's started, with a question about sex education. The Tory MP Philip Davies (Shipley) suggested it might be best for children to have no sex education at all in school. Nothing yet about Baby P. 2:31pm: I'll be listening to the whole session, but just blogging when it gets interesting. 2:24pm: For 45 minutes Balls has to answer questions which have already been tabled and which ...

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...

Sex education will be given to children as young as five in some schools in a bid to lower the teenage pregnancy rate.

Children as young as four are to become the youngest in Scotland to be given sex education lessons under a new curriculum.