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What young people are telling us about SRE.
SRE is slowly improving
The survey included the question ‘Please give a rating for your school SRE as a whole’
- 22% of respondents rated their school SRE overall as either “bad” or “very bad”.
- Just 10% rated it as “very good”.
However, male respondents were more likely than female respondents to rate their school SRE as “good” (29%) or “very good” (15%). Respondents identifying as trans, non-binary or other were least likely to rate their SRE as “good” or “very good”; 84% of these respondents rated their school SRE as “OK”, “bad” or “very bad”.
“In the past years in school I have never had SRE” (Male, 13 years old)
“Sex was still regarded as a taboo subject and the teachers seemed uncomfortable talking about it. The whole concept was approached purely biologically with no regards to relationships at all and was pushed into a few lessons at the end of term alongside drugs education.” (Male, 15 years old)
The Sex Education Forum has carried...
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