Guidance about the compulsory lessons from age five is published tomorrow
The lessons mean pupils will be taught about gay and transgender relationships
Parents' rights to remove children from sex education aged 15 is also planned
Primary school children from the age of five are to be taught about gay and transgender relationships as part of compulsory lessons.
Guidance about the new lessons, which will be rolled out nationally next year, will be published tomorrow.
It will also outline plans to withdraw parents' rights to remove their children from sex education aged 15 from 2020.
New curriculum will bring an end of parents’ right to opt their children out of sex and relationships education classes in secondary school .
Children are guaranteed to receive at least a term of lessons by the time they are 16, as part if the new curriculum which is being brought in by education secretary Damian Hinds.
When the new lessons are rolled out next year, headteachers will be forced to bring them in, The Sunday Times reported.
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