Parents and schools should cooperate on sex education

SECONDARY schools should develop a strategy for communicating with parents about relationships and sex education that occurs at school, a report has recommended.

The study, published by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency, examines parents’ approaches to educating their children about sexuality.

It found that while parents didn’t always respond fully to questions from their younger children, they reported attempting to raise sexual issues with their teenage children. However, these attempts were often blocked by the young people who were reluctant to talk about the topic.