School sex clinics fuel debate on promiscuity

by LotusFlower | June 21, 2008 at 03:28 pm

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In a country with the highest teenage pregnancy figures in Europe this news has to be good news but it's not only these clinics that are good news but also the increased emphasis on Sex and Relationships Education with it's hope to delay the onset of sexual activity rather than just accepting that kids as young as eleven will have sex. Most school age children are not having sex, not doing drugs and not carrying offensive weapons - lets keep it that way and work with those too that are already having sex etc.

Condoms, pregnancy tests and morning-after pills are being offered in schools to hundreds of thousands of children, some as young as 11.
Twenty-nine per cent of secondary schools in England now have sexual health clinics with one in 20 providing children with prescriptions for a variety of contraceptives - the pill, injections or implants - without their parents being informed, according to research by the Sex Education Forum.

Lucy Emmerson, a senior development officer at the forum and author of the study, professed herself delighted yesterday 'that so many schools have got as far as this - not just thinking about setting up a service but delivering it'.

Her work, the first national survey of its kind, will be published on Tuesday by the forum, an umbrella organisation which supports the development of sex and relationship education in schools.