Recommendation 2

However, we are concerned that the teaching of the menstrual health element of relationships, sex and health education is insufficient and inconsistent. It is often delivered too late in a child’s development to be of use and by teachers who lack the necessary training. The requirement in the draft guidance that schools need to cover reproductive health conditions only by the end of year 11 contrasts with Government advice that puberty and menstruation should be addressed before onset. It needs revising.