Pupils in Scotland should start sex education lessons as early as possible to help to reduce the country’s high teen pregnancy rate, MSPs have said.
Holyrood’s health committee has called on the Scottish government to instigate a wholesale review of what is taught in schools, amid concerns that provision varies and not enough time is dedicated to the subject.
The MSPs also said that schemes that offer free contraception to children from the age of 13 should be extended. However, they stopped short of calling for them to operate in schools, or for school nurses to be able to provide the morning-after pill.
As well as an overhaul of sex education, the committee wants to see a new national strategy on teenage pregnancy. Duncan McNeil,…