Fact check: Government sex education lesson restrictions have some flexibility for teachers
Green Party peer and former leader Baroness Natalie Bennett claimed a new Government proposal would ban schools from teaching some children who have begun menstruating about periods.
She wrote on X, formerly Twitter: “Some pupils start menstruating at eight. Yet government plans to _ban_ them being educated about what is happening in their own bodies.”
Evaluation
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