We are thrilled to be able to announce that bookings are now open for our 2022 Annual Conference. This FREE event will be held at the RAF Club in central London from 10.30am to 4.30pm on Saturday 21st May. Our guest speakers include Professor David Paton from the University of Nottingham, who will be speaking …
Category «Teenage Pregnancy»
White privilege and critical race theory in schools: what’s the problem?
Today on social media we shared the Education Committee’s report “The forgotten: how White working-class pupils have been let down, and how to change it.” The report shows how White British pupils eligible for free school meals persistently underperform compared with peers in other ethnic groups, from early years through to higher education. The statistics …
Letter – The truth about teenage pregnancy in the Netherlands
Your recent article on sex and relationships education claims that the Dutch method of teaching accounts for lower rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections in the Netherlands (Children Now, 31 January-6 February). In reality, however, there is no standardised approach to sex education in Dutch schools, and a wide variety of methods are …
Letter – Increasing access to contraception does not result in lower teenage conception rates
Promoting marriage can fix teenage pregnancy rates Aiming to increase the uptake of contraceptive injections and implants among girls under 16 is simply giving them a licence to engage in illegal sexual relationships. We cannot think of any other area where the Government facilitates lawbreaking, or at least sets out to mitigate the …
Publication – Deconstructing the Dutch Utopia
Download pdf report in full Download pdf factsheet, Lessons in Dutch Mythology For many years, extravagant claims have been made about the nature of sex education in the Netherlands, and its relationship to the low teenage pregnancy rate in that country. The British government’s teenage pregnancy strategy places great emphasis on the role to be …