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Sexual Consent and Relationships Education

Monday 1 December 2025 · 2 questions

Summarised by AI from the official record, so it can contain mistakes.

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Answered 0 Partly answered 2 Not answered 0

Key points

  • The Department is developing new RSHE guidance to support schools in teaching about healthy relationships and consent.
  • Parents have concerns about how schools handle sensitive issues like consent and sexual violence.
  • Alistair Strathern inquired about creating more opportunities for young children in educational reforms.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Ian Roome Lib Dem North Devon
Education
Context

Parents are concerned about how schools address sensitive issues of consent and sexual violence.

Question

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?

Answer from The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Olivia Bailey)

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.

Partly answered

Not addressed: The response did not specify how the government is ensuring appropriately trained professionals teach these subjects.

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Q2 Alistair Strathern Lab Hitchin
Education Children & Families
Context

Some subsets of young men have regressive attitudes to sex, relationships and women.

Question

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?

Answer from The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Olivia Bailey)

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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Not addressed: The response did not specify concrete measures or actions being taken to create these opportunities within reforms.

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