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Dumfries and Galloway schoolchildren to be given chance to take part in controversial sex survey
29.12.2021 - 12:01 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Schoolchildren are to be given the chance to take part in a controversial survey which asks intimate sexual questions.
The Scottish Government’s health and wellbeing survey has been criticised for asking pupils as young as 14 questions regarding what, if any, sexual experiences they have had.
Local authorities have the option not to take part in the survey or choose which questions are put to pupils.
A council spokesman said: “Dumfries and Galloway schools plan to offer young people the opportunity
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