In 2022, the Welsh Government introduced the Curriculum for Wales – wide-ranging changes impacting all subjects. This booklet focusses on the new approach to ‘Relationships and Sexuality Education’ (RSE). This subject applies to all pupils in state schools up to school leaving age, including nursery schools. Independent schools are not obliged to follow the Curriculum for Wales but some may choose to do so.
The Irish Government has pledged to ban so-called conversion therapy before the end of 2026.
Abortion has been legal in England, Wales and Scotland since 1967, and in Northern Ireland since 2020. Women in England and Wales can now kill their babies in the womb at any time without sanction, although the 24-week limit still applies to doctors. In Scotland, abortion is legal up to 24 weeks for most reasons, while in Northern Ireland, abortion is available on demand, for any or no reason, up to twelve weeks. In all parts of the UK, abortion because of disability is allowed up to birth.
