Leaving Cert students to take mandatory course in mental and sexual health

Draft curriculum also proposes fully integrating  LGBTQ+ identities, relationships, and families into teaching and learning, as opposed to being addressed within stand-alone lessons.

Learning about physical, social, and mental health, sex and relationships, will become mandatory for all Leaving Cert students through a new, shared curriculum under proposals due to be published on Wednesday.

The updated, draft Social, Personal, and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum for Senior Cycle also sets out to be “inclusive of all genders, sexualities, ethnicities, religious beliefs, social classes and abilities/disabilities”.