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MPs in call for sex education for pupils in primary schools; Bid to lower one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancies in Europe.(News)
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Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
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August 25, 2008
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Byline: Tomos Livingstone Political Editor
SEX education should be made a compulsory part of the curriculum in all schools, a group of Welsh Labour MPs say today.
In a letter to the Western Mail, the MPs call on the Assembly Government to change the rules in a bid to cut Wales' high rates of teenage pregnancy.
At present Assembly Government guidelines state that primary schools are only required to "have a policy" on sex education, while secondaries are obliged to include it in their curriculum.
But schools inspectorate Estyn says the quality of lessons is ...