Liberal Democrats called on Tuesday for a significant extension of sex education in schools, saying "age-appropriate" sex education should be taught from the age of seven.
In a statement, David Laws, the education minister, has said that academies and free schools should have to teach sex and relationship education. Under current rules, sex and relationship education is compulsory in council-run secondary schools, but not for academies and free schools, and not for primary school pupils.
Laws said this would be a manifesto commitment, and that Lib Dem attempts to extend sex education had been strongly resisted by the Conservatives in government....
