Select committee: Women and Equalities Committee
Recommendation 4
12th Report – Menstrual health of girls and young women
Published 4 Mar 2026
Addressed to Government Equalities Office
Women and Equalities Committee Reproductive health conditions: girls and young women All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Department for Education and the Department of Health and Social Care should work with expert stakeholders to ensure the range of guidance being produced to support the introduction of the new RSHE curricula in September 2026 reflects the diversity of experiences of menstrual wellbeing and needs of students. Schools will need guidance on teaching menstrual and gynaecological health to pupils from different racial and ethnic 69 backgrounds and to those with disabilities. Teaching materials should reflect a broad range of lived experiences so that students from a diverse range of backgrounds can feel represented and teaching can be tailored to their needs. (Recommendation, Paragraph 32)
From: Women and Equalities Committee, 12th Report – Menstrual health of girls and young women (HC 1265), 4 March 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 26 May 2026 (deadline 4 May 2026).