Coping with STIs and relationship break-ups part of sex education pack

COPING with relationship break-ups and visits to STI clinics will be issues covered in a new sex education pack for secondary schools and pupils.

The revived school programme features a DVD which shows an actor as a student coping with sexually transmitted infection concerns at a clinic.

Department of Education Minister Mary Hanafin is introducing the pack in a bid to modernise sexual education programmes, which in some schools were found to be old fashioned and out of touch with pupils’ needs.