Calls have been made for sex and relationships education (SRE) to be covered in a “meaningful way” after a poll found that a third of young people did not learn about consent at school.
The survey, conducted by the Sex Education Forum, also found that only 43 per cent learnt about “what is good or bad in a relationship”.
The poll of 890 young people, aged 14 to 25, saw many of them describe “a complete absence of discussion about real-life relationship situations and what you would do should something happen”.
Furthermore, with a majority of respondents to the survey aged 16 or 17, it means that they are describing very recent experiences of sex education in schools.
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