Seven out of 10 teachers feel that they haven’t had enough training to confidently teach sex education, according to a new survey by the Sex Education Forum (SEF).

The news coincides with the launch of a new campaign by the SEF, ‘It’s my right’, which aims to make sex and relationships education (SRE) a statutory requirement in schools. Currently, schools are only obliged to teach the basic biology of sex and can opt in or out of teaching SRE, which encompasses wider issues surrounding relationships, consent, domestic violence and sexual health. Chair of the Sex Education Forum Jane Lees commented: “For too long young people have been telling us about what they wish they had learnt in school about consent and relationships and how better knowledge of their body and sexual health facts could have kept them safe and healthier.”