A SCHOOL which decided not to give students relationship and sexuality education is to review its policy following criticism in a Department of Education inspection report.

Education chiefs vowed tonight to increase pressure on schools to improve sex education after a shocking survey revealed three-quarters of teenagers are not taught the subject.

CHILDREN are learning about the basic facts of life from as young as seven or eight but they are still ringing help-lines in their thousands every year with questions about sexuality.

FOUR out of 10 secondary schools have failed to fully implement the State’s sex education programme since it was introduced nine years ago, a conference on adolescent sexual behaviour and sexual health heard yesterday.

THE majority of primary and secondary schools have failed to implement road safety programmes drawn up by the National Safety Council (NSC), according to an international study.