Paragraph 11 Sex education

(1)

Arrangements shall be made to secure that, with effect from 1st September 1994, every pupil who is provided with secondary education at a grant-maintained special school or a non-maintained special school 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)

As from that date the governing body of a grant-maintained special school or a non-maintained special school 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 the provision of sex education, and

(b)

make copies of the statement available for inspection, at all reasonabl 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.