The secretary state has finally seen fit to respond to those many expert voices that have been calling for PSHE and sex and relationships education (SRE) to be made statutory national curriculum subjects.
Sadly, however, Nicky Morgan has ignored the combined weight of the evidence and expertise that has been building up for some time now. In doing so, she has, I believe, completely missed the point.
Calls to raise the status of these subjects have long been made, but the recent momentum began a year ago when MPs on the Education Select Committee reported on their inquiry into PSHE and SRE. They found a hugely varied picture of quality of delivery and confusion as to the status of the subjects and what was actually statutory.
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