Leeds ‘needs better sex education’
Posted on October 22, 2009
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Sex education in schools in Leeds has not been made a big enough priority, according to the city council’s health scrutiny board.
The watchdog said that some teenage girls in the city thought getting pregnant was their “best hope” in life, because they had not received enough education.
The council is investigating how to improve public health in the city, starting with sexual health, but councillors said they knew sex and relationships education had not been a priority of headteachers and governors.
John Freeman, from the Healthy Initiatives Team at Education Leeds, said headteachers were more focused on pupils’ achievements and finances.
“These are the things that can lose a headteacher their job,” he said. “No headteacher would ever lose their job because sex and relationship education was delivered badly in schools.”
He added that Education Leeds was working to raise awareness of the topic as they did not think it was being treated as seriously as it should be.
“There are barriers and the barriers are generally to do with the willingness of senior management teams to give this the priority which I think it deserves,” he added.
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