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Today (20 March 2014) PinkNews published an interview with Labour party leader Ed Miliband MP in which he says that making sex education in schools compulsory is “the right thing to do”.
Responding to Mr Miliband’s statement on statutory sex and relationships education (SRE), Brook's Chief Executive Simon Blake OBE said:
"Brook has long campaigned to make SRE statutory in all schools, including academies and free schools, so we are really pleased to hear Ed Miliband promise to make it a reality if Labour win in 2015. We look forward to hearing more details about Labour's plans from Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt.
"Getting SRE that teaches about more than just the bare biological essentials into all schools as part of a wider PSHE curriculum is, as Mr Miliband says, the right thing to do - young people deserve a thorough and non judgemental grounding in SRE to keep them safe, healthy and happy now and in the future. Our newly published SRE Supplementary Advice, produced alongside the PSHE Association and the Sex Education Forum, offers easy to follow guidance to schools that want to improve their teaching of SRE."
The SRE Supplementary Advice produced by Brook, the PSHE Association and the Sex Education Forum can be downloaded for free here.
For media enquiries please contact Brook's press office on 07789 682831 or email press@brook.org.uk
Notes to editors
Brook believes that young people should have access to great sexual health services and wellbeing support.
Brook provides free and confidential sexual health information, contraception, pregnancy testing, advice and counselling, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and education programmes, reaching nearly 235,000 young people nationwide every year.
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