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Page last updated at 07:28 GMT, Thursday, 23 October 2008 08:28 UK

New 'compulsory' lessons on sex

The government is expected to announce that sex and relationship lessons will be made compulsory in primary and secondary schools in England. Kevin Ward, headmaster of Holmleigh Primary School in Hackney, and Norman Wells, director of family charity the Family Education Trust, discuss whether more information given about sex can lead to fewer unplanned teenage pregnancies.

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