Sexual Consent and Relationships Education 2025-12-01
2025-12-01
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Q1
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Parents are concerned about how schools address sensitive issues of consent and sexual violence.
Many parents are concerned about how schools address the sensitive issues of consent and sexual violence. What action is the Department taking to ensure that those subjects are being taught in schools by appropriately trained professionals, to safeguard both pupils and teachers?
That is exactly what our new RSHE guidance aims to do, to give schools the support they need to ensure that our young people are taught about healthy relationships, and to learn about critical concepts such as consent.
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The response did not specify how the government is ensuring appropriately trained professionals teach these subjects.
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Q2
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Some subsets of young men have regressive attitudes to sex, relationships and women.
How can we ensure that as part of our reforms we create more opportunities for those spaces at the heart of every young child’s education?
I thank my hon. Friend for his question and for all the work that he does on this important topic. I agree with him wholeheartedly, and I very much hope and expect that our work with schools to ensure that healthy relationships are taught in them will mean that young men get the exact space that he is asking for.
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The response did not specify concrete measures or actions being taken to create these opportunities within reforms.
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