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<p>The Department is currently speaking with a broad range of expert organisations
about the potential curriculum content for the new compulsory subjects of relationships
education (in primary schools) and relationships and sex education (in secondary schools),
and in considering whether to make personal, social, health and economic education
compulsory.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this work, the Department has been in contact
with teachers' representatives and parents’ bodies. The Department has also engaged
with the British Heart Foundation, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance. Discussions
have considered whether first aid should be included.</p><p> </p><p>The evidence the
Department gathers from these discussions, along with the call for evidence that was
launched in December and closes on 12 February 2018, will support the Government’s
decisions on compulsory subject content. The Department will formally consult on the
draft regulations and guidance before laying the regulations in the House for debate.</p><p>
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