HL Deb 18 July 2000 vol 615 cc875-6

182 Clause 117, page 55, line 30, leave out from beginning to end of line 44 on page 56 and insert— ("(3) After subsection (1) of that section insert—

  1. "(1A) The Secretary of State must issue guidance designed to secure that when sex education is given to registered pupils at maintained schools they are protected from teaching and materials which are inappropriate having regard to the age and the religious and cultural background of the pupils concerned.
  2. (1B) In discharging their functions under subsection (1) governing bodies and head teachers must have regard to the Secretary of State's guidance.
  3. (1C) Guidance under subsection (1A) must include guidance about any material which may be produced by NHS bodies for use for the purposes of sex education in schools.
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  4. (1D) The Secretary of State may at any time revise his guidance under subsection (1A)."

(4) In subsection (2) of that section—

  1. (a) for "subsection (1)" substitute "this section", and
  2. (b) at the end insert "and "NHS body" has the same meaning as in section 22 of the National Health Service Act 1977."

(5) In section 404 (sex education: statements of policy) after subsection (1) insert— (1A) A statement under subsection (1) must include a statement of the effect of section 405."").

Baroness Blackstone

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 182.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 182.—(Baroness Blackstone.)