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<p>The national curriculum includes content that can be used by teachers as an opportunity
to inform pupils about organ donation. For example, pupils are taught about this as
part of the Key Stage 4 science curriculum. The national curriculum is compulsory
in state-maintained schools and is often used as a benchmark by academies and free
schools.</p><p>Since September 2020, it has been compulsory for schools to teach relationships
education to primary school-aged pupils, relationships and sex education to secondary
school-aged pupils and health education to all pupils in state-maintained schools.
The statutory guidance on relationships, sex and health education sets out that by
the end of secondary school, pupils should know about the science relating to blood,
organ and stem cell donation.</p><p>The department has published teacher training
modules, including online modules for primary and secondary teachers containing key
knowledge and facts to help teachers understand what they must teach in relation to
the new requirements. This can be done flexibly and can include teaching about organ
donation.</p><p>As with other aspects of the curriculum, schools continue to have
flexibility over how they deliver important topics and use their autonomy and local
community knowledge to do this.</p><p>Health education in schools in Northern Ireland
are matters for the Department of Education for Northern Ireland.</p>
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