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25.—(1) Arrangements must be made to ensure that every registered pupil who is provided with secondary education receives sex education unless wholly or partly excused from such education (except in so far as it is comprised in the National Curriculum) in accordance with a request from the pupil’s parent.
(2) Arrangements may be made for registered pupils provided with primary education to receive sex education unless wholly or partly excused from such education in accordance with a request from the pupil’s parent.
(3) Arrangements must be made, in relation to registered pupils who are provided with primary and secondary education at the school, to—
(a)make and keep up to date—
(i)a written statement of the school’s policy with regard to sex education for pupils provided with primary education, and
(ii)a written statement of the school’s policy with regard to sex education for pupils provided with secondary education, and
(b)make a copy of both statements available for inspection, at all reasonable times, by parents of pupils at the school and provide a copy of the statement free of charge to any such parent who asks for one.
(4) In this Schedule, and in relation to registered pupils who are provided with secondary education, “sex education” includes education about—
(a)Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and
(b)any other sexually transmitted disease.
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