Sex education in UK ‘should be made compulsory for five-year-olds’: MPs

‘Children as young as five should be given compulsory sex education amid concerns schools are failing to keep pace with the sexualisation of children by the internet, MPs have said.

A report by the Education Select Committee has called for sex and relationships education to be placed on the national curriculum for the first time – making it a statutory requirement in all state primary and secondary schools.

A cross-party group of MPs criticised the Government’s “weak” strategy for improving sex education and said its rhetoric on the topic failed to be backed up with action.’

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