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Draft guidance aims to balance providing essential information with preserving childhood innocence, excluding gender identity from curriculum
- Sex education to begin no earlier than year five, when pupils are aged nine.
- Gender identity deemed a 'contested topic' and excluded from teaching at all ages.
- New proposals include clear age limits for sensitive topics like sexual violence and pornography.
- Parents to be fully informed about the content being taught to their children.
- Education leaders and charities express concerns over potential negative impacts of the new guidelines.
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