I am calling for intimate health to be included on the secondary curriculum

Rejected 14 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government needs to make women’s health a priority. Girls need to be taught how to look after their intimate health, including pelvic floor health, in schools. In this country, it’s mentioned as an after thought of child birth.

The Government needs to focus on women’s intimate health. The Government needs to teach girls about intimate health from a young age so they can look after their health throughout their life without shame and embarrassment. Women are being let down across the board from pain with PMS to Endometriosis to pregnancy to childbirth to post childbirth to pelvic floor health to incontinence to menopause and beyond.

Why it was rejected

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

The current RSE curriculum content for schools already feature women's reproductive and intimate health as a topic. This includes menstruation, menopause, fertility and pregnancy. You can read the full list of content covered in the Government's RSE guidelines here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1090195/Relationships_Education_RSE_and_Health_Education.pdf

PCOS and endometriosis are not currently in the curriculum but we do have a petition open on this topic which you might like to sign:

Include PCOS & Endometriosis education in the national secondary curriculum
Include PCOS & Endometriosis education in the national secondary curriculum

We could accept a petition calling for additional content in the RSE curriculum, but it would need to be clear what additions you would want the Government to include.

Timeline

15 Feb 2023	Petition opened for signatures
16 Feb 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 14

Status Rejected

Rejected 16 Feb 2023

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