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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

'Horrendous' sex education classes for young pupils to be investigated by children's tsar

The Children’s Commissioner has expressed alarm at "horrendous" examples of sex education in schools, which included young children being taught about rape.

Dame Rachel de Souza said she would look into concerns from MPs about examples of young children being exposed to age inappropriate content in class.

Tory MP Miriam Cates told the Education Committee that constituents had raised concerns, including "a nine-year-old coming home, shaking, white as a sheet, because they've been taught in detail about rape".

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