Personal, Social And Health Education (No. 2)

EDM number 1732 in 2007-08, proposed by Annette Brooke on 10/06/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House notes that the UK has the highest levels of teenage pregnancy, birth and abortion rates in Western Europe; further notes that for every 1,000 births between 2000 and 2005, 27 births were to under 19 year olds while the figure in France was just 8; further notes that 57.5 per cent. of under 16 conceptions in 2005 resulted in legal abortion; further notes that of more than 20,000 teenagers questioned about sex education in a UK Youth Parliament survey published in 2007, more than half rated the teaching in school as poor, very poor or merely average and only a quarter said it was good; joins the UK Youth Parliament in calling for sex and relationship courses to be made a statutory part of personal, social and health education; and further calls for trained staff to deliver such courses.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.