In February last year, a report by the Education Select Committee recommended making PSHE and sex and relationships education (SRE) statutory subjects. The DfE promised a full response on the issue by the end of 2015, but as yet nothing has been forthcoming.Chairman of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP wrote to Ms Morgan late last year expressing his frustration at the government’s “feeble” response to the report.
Now Ms Morgan has received a second letter, this time from the chairs of four of the Parliamentary Select Committees – Education, Health, Home Affairs, and Business and Innovation and Skills.
The letter states: “We write to express our disappointment with your response so far to the issue of statutory status for PSHE and SRE.
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