Relationships, sex and PSHE education
The Education Acts of 1996 and 2002 and the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014 set out schools' current duties in relation to the teaching of sex education and PSHE. The Act provides for the amendment of these current duties, and to legislation set out in subsections (6) and (4) of sections 34 and 35 respectively, to make it mandatory to teach Relationships Education in primary schools, Relationships and Sex Education in secondary schools, and provides a power to make it mandatory to teach Personal Social Health and Economic Education in all schools.