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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Catherine Lough

Tory MP criticises ‘extreme’ sex education material in schools

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A Tory MP has said that the Government’s 2020 relationships and sex education guidance has “opened the floodgates” to extreme content on sex in schools.

Miriam Cates, Conservative MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge – and a member of the Commons’ education committee, told a Westminster Hall debate that “extreme and inappropriate” sex education material was being shared with children in schools in England.

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