CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Putting the genie back in the bottle

Chris Waterman writes on recent developments that have put personal, social, health and economic education back at the top of the educational agenda.

By accident rather than design, the education select committee report ‘Life lessons: PSHE and SRE in schools' was published earlier this month, on the same day as the follow-up report by the children's commissioner on the sexual exploitation of children and young people.

The select committee report was the top story on the TV news, followed by the children's commissioner's report.

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