Paragraph 11 Sex education

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 12(3) words inserted by Employment and Support Allowance (Consequential Provisions) 2008 reg. 5
Sch. para. 21(6)(a) word substituted by Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009, Parts 7 and 8 2010 art. 5
Sch. para. 3C(2)(b) words inserted by Education (Miscellaneous Amendments relating to Safeguarding Children) 2009 reg. 2(3)

(1)

Arrangements shall be made to secure that every pupil who is provided with secondary education will receive sex education, or will be wholly or partly excused from such education (except in so far as it is comprised in the National Curriculum) if his parent so requests.

(2)

The governing body shall, in relation to pupils who are provided with secondary education at the school–

(a)

make and keep up to date a separate written statement of their policy with regard to sex education, and

(b)

make copies of the statement available for inspection, at all reasonable times, by parents of pupils at the school and provide a copy of the statement free of charge to any such parent who asks for one.

(3)

In this Schedule, “sex education” includes education about–

(a)

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and

(b)

any other sexually transmitted disease.