SRE teaching for four-year-olds proposed

Teaching all pupils a version of sex and relationship education (SRE) from the age of four will help bring down levels of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies, it has been suggested.

In a letter to the Telegraph, a cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to make the teaching of this subject compulsory for all ages.

It states: "We call on the government to guarantee appropriate sex and relationship education in every primary and secondary school by putting personal, social and health education on a statutory basis as part of the national curriculum."

Sexual health charities the Family Planning Association and Brook earlier this year made similar recommendations about the teaching of SRE to younger pupils.

The MPs believe it is important to address this issue as early as possible.

In a letter to the Western Mail published in the paper today, a number of Welsh Labour MPs have made a similar request to the government.