Damian Hinds, the Secretary of State for Education, has said that parents will be able to withdraw their children from sex education.
His predecessor, Justine Greening, had wanted sex education to be compulsory and universal. This had raised concerns as the government plans to extend “sex and relationships education” to children as young as four.
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Hinds said: “There is an established right for parents to withdraw their children from sex education”. The “science curriculum”, he added, referring to biology lessons covering human reproduction, is “a different matter”.
