Safe at School calls on parents to resist compulsory “big brother” plans to sexualise children.

Jan 18, 2017 by

from SPUC:

SPUC Safe at School is launching a nationwide appeal to parents following an attempt in Parliament last week to make sex education a compulsory subject in the nation’s schools. 

Safe at School is calling on parents, grandparents and others write to their MP asking him/her to oppose any proposals to make sex education a compulsory school subject.  Briefing notes are available.

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Not the answer to sexual violence

Advocates claim that making Personal, Health and Social Education (PSHE) – which includes sex and relationships education (SRE) – compulsory will reduce the use of pornography, sexting and sexual violence among pupils.

However, Antonia Tully, campaign director and a mum of two school-age children, says that this is not the answer. “Recent history is littered with failures of such interventions in trying to change the sexual behaviour of young people.”

Does school sex education work?

Mrs Tully explains: “Until recently the drive to introduce compulsory SRE has focused on reducing teenage pregnancies. Studies point to sex education achieving little or no impact in this area, despite the decline in teenage pregnancies.”

“School sex education does not always deliver the results people expected.

“Indeed, a 2015 study showed that in England the fall in teenage pregnancy seems to have more to do with young people staying in school and getting better exam results, than sex education.”

Mrs Tully said increasing access to contraception has long been viewed as central to reducing teenage pregnancies but added:

“A 2016 study found such schemes can actually increase teenage births and STIs. The study also found that gonorrhoea rates for women increased following condom schemes.”

“This failure to protect young people in school from STIs and abortions should inform current proposals to make PSHE statutory.”

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