25.03.2009
The UK Youth Parliament has been awarded a special achievement award at The Brook Awards 2009 for it's campaigning work on sex and relationships education.
Young people’s sexual health charity Brook held its annual awards dinner on 5 March at The Brit Oval Conference Centre, London, to celebrate the outstanding work young people and professionals are doing to improve the lives of young people all over the UK.
UK Youth Parliament has been given the special achievement award for its outstanding and unique contribution to national sexual health policy. The award was presented by Karen Turner, Children’s and Young People’s Public Health Programme Manager, Department of Health.
UK Youth Parliament launched its sex and relationships education (SRE) campaign and, in 2007, their report SRE – are you getting it? which made recommendations and pulled together young people’s views that the SRE they are receiving in school is too little, too late, too biological and doesn’t provide enough (if any) information on relationships.
UK Youth Parliament has campaigned locally and regionally about the importance of better SRE in schools and had an active involvement in the government’s SRE review.
Joshua McTaggart, from UK Youth Parliament, who accepted the award said:
“This is a real achievement for the UK Youth Parliament including all of the work that has gone on before my time. When sex and relationships education is compulsory all the good work across the country can ensure that young people get the sex education they deserve.” |
