Make it a legal requirement for schools to teach children about consent

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Make it a legal requirement for schools to teach children about consent and also what to do if that consent is violated

To help decrease the amount of people who will be raped or sexually assaulted in the future

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

The Government's new Relationships and Sex Education curriculum, which is mandatory in all state schools from this year, requires that students are now taught about key aspects of the law relating to sex, which include the age of consent, what consent is and is not, the definitions and recognition of rape, sexual assault and harassment, and that sexual violence and sexual harassment are not acceptable: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/relationships-education-relationships-and-sex-education-rse-and-health-education/relationships-and-sex-education-rse-secondary

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Sex education and consent to be mandatory in primary schools

Timeline

14 Mar 2021	Petition opened for signatures
20 Apr 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Apr 2021

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