The implementation of a law on sexual education, may be the biggest challenge that the Ministry of Education will have to face, the Family Planning Association (SOP) states in its announcement, on the occasion of the debate and vote on the proposed law, at today's session of the Plenary of the Parliament.
In its announcement, the Association points out that, although sex education has been included in the Health Education Curriculum of the Ministry of Education since 2011, on the one hand it is not applied to technical education and, on the other hand, its application remains insufficient.
Then, among the reasons for insufficient implementation, he recognizes the “lack of a control and evaluation system for its implementation and the lack of an adequate training and support mechanism for teachers on the part of the Ministry so that they are able to teach or manage issues of sexual education” and concludes that “the Ministry must recognize the issue and take the appropriate measures”. Charalambos Theopeptou, and was voted today by the Plenary, after intense debate, “provides for the institutionalization of holistic comprehensive sexual education at all levels of education in public and private education”. He adds that this “is the most important tool for preventing sexual abuse that we have at our disposal”. of life, appropriately adapted according to their needs and their developmental level, to be able to recognize and create healthy relationships as children, but also later as adults, and to protect themselves from sexual abuse as well as from other forms of violence” .
