New curriculum will teach young people to deal with pressure of sex

An updated curriculum that will teach young people to cope with the pressure of having sex too early will help delay this process, one expert has said.

Rebecca Findlay, spokesperson for the Family Planning Association, has welcomed the new set of measures, saying that she believes it is important that young people are taught about sex.

The comments come after the Department for Children, Schools and Families released plans for school children to be taught the importance of marriage and given guidance on how to deal with sexual content in the media.

Ms Findlay said: "Good sex and relationship education has been shown that it helps delay when young people first start having sex.

"What they do is not start risky experimentation, they actually have sex when they are ready, and they don't get pressurised into it."

This Sex and Relationship Education will be taught within lessons on personal, social and health education (PSHE).

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