As Sex Education returns to Netflix, the cast tell Shilpa Ganatra how they support the frank and non-preachy approach to the themes in the show.

Education Minister McHugh has strongly hit out at a “fake news” campaign which suggested four-year-olds would be taught about masturbation as part of a new sex education curriculum.

In her column ‘Ditch the shyness and just get on with talking to children about sex’, (Irish Examiner, November 15) Alison O’Connor suggests that letters of concern to the Department of Education regarding policy changes were premature, as the Government hasn’t yet made any decisions about reform to sex education.

As the final hours approached for making submissions to the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), Dr Caroline West encouraged readers to support proposals that would empower students to make “informed decisions that are right for them’ — ‘High time our sex education reflected modern Irish society” (Irish Examiner, October 25).

Quarter of a century ago, 179 governments pledged to provide information to help young people make ‘responsible’ decisions about sex and sexuality. It is time to implement that pledge, by giving teens the information and safe spaces they need, writes Jayathma Wickramanayake.

Consent classes are to be rolled out to secondary schools and sports clubs across the country.

Any welcome for the news that college consent classes will be rolled out to secondary schools and sports clubs must be tempered by a question or two

Sex education in our schools is being overhauled — and not before time — pupils, parents, and teachers tell Joyce Fegan

Blunt instruments to censor porn won’t work, writes Caroline West.

Parents at a non-denominational school in Dublin have staged a protest over the use of a Catholic agency to deliver sex education classes to pupils.

Many of the beliefs people hold about rape are downright wrong, write Alex Aldridge and Adam Winstock.

Young people are frustrated with how sex education is taught in schools, particularly when it comes to consent.

The head of the ASTI is calling for dedicated teachers to teach sex education in secondary schools.

The ‘shame’ that continues to shroud sexual discourse in this country forces children to turn to the internet for information in lieu of formal sex education, writes Joyce Fegan.

Colleges and universities could be forced to provide compulsory sexual consent classes after a shock report found two-thirds of young women have been pressured into sex or faced crude sexual taunts while on campus.

More than 53% of boys in Ireland first encountered pornography between the ages of 10 and 13, compared to 23% of girls the same age group, a new study shows.

In the age of smartphones and near universal access to unregulated internet content, it’s time for a revision of school curriculum regarding relationships and sex education, which hasn’t been updated in over 20 years, writes

External organisations that provide sex education to school pupils do not need any qualifications and are not inspected by the Department of Education, the Oireachtas Committee on Education has heard this afternoon.

Teenagers and young adults are more likely to trust the internet and their friends for information on sex than their parents or teachers.

A bill to prevent schools from using their religious ethos to avoid providing objective and factual sex education is to be debated in the Dáil.

Latest: A Bill to prevent schools from using their religious ethos to avoid teaching full objective and factual sex education is to be debated in the Dáil.

Teachers unions and groups working with young people have welcomed Education Minister Richard Bruton’s plans for a review of sex education in schools.

The vast, often dark and uncontrollable internet is just one of the many issues facing parents determined to protect and educate their children.

The Government will introduce a free contraception system after the referendum on the Eighth Amendment in a bid to revolutionise Ireland’s sex education and sexual health regime.

If you’re not going to engage in those conversations with your son or daughter, are you really in a position to criticise them for turning to pornography for guidance?

More specific sex education should be considered at primary school level, according to one of the speakers at an international conference on the treatment of sex offenders which opens in Dublin today .

Children in Ireland need to be learning the difference between rape and sexual consent at a much younger age, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has said.

The Department of Education has warned principals about inviting speakers into classrooms who use scare tactics, sensationalism or who lecture children morally.