Funding threat to pioneering sex education service

AN INNOVATIVE sex education programme currently offered to schools is in danger because of a lack of government funding.

The future of the sex education programme, which has been delivered for years by the Sexual Health Centre in Cork, is in doubt, according to the centre’s chief executive, Deirdre Seery, who accused the Government of paying “lip service” to sex education.

The Government’s funding for the Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) programme in Irish schools does not include money for schools to pay for outside experts such as the staff of the Sexual Health Centre.