Letter to the Editor: Lessons from abroad when it comes to sex education
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.
That may be strictly true, but as both she and Dr Caroline West have pointed out in your paper, an Oireachtas committee has proposed changes to bring Ireland into line with both the sex education programmes of other countries and with guidelines from organisations like the UN, Unesco, and WHO.
