MPs have called for primary school children to receive sex education lessons
Children should receive compulsory sex and relationships lessons in primary school, MPs have said.
Youngsters have a right to information that will help to keep them healthy and safe and should be taught the subject throughout their schooling, according to the influential Commons Education Select Committee.
In a new report, it called for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) to be given statutory status in all of England's state primary and secondary schools to ensure that enough lesson time is devoted to the subject and teachers are properly trained.
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