Balls defends last-minute 'U-turn' on sex education [timesonline.co.uk]
- Published: 23 February 2010
Ed Balls today defended the right of faith schools to teach that contraception, abortion and homosexuality are wrong as campaigners accused him of "betraying" children in faith schools and capitulating to the faith lobby by watering down new laws on sex education.
The Schools Secretary said that schools should be allowed to preserve the right to teach their pupils about sex and relationships in accordance with their own religion despite new legislation making sex education compulsory.
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