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Bereavement Counselling and Death: Curriculum
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including lessons on death and bereavement in the National Curriculum.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 18 Nov 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including lessons on death and bereavement in the National Curriculum.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Nov 2024
Answer published
The department wants to support all young people to be happy, healthy and safe, and to equip them for adult life so they achieve and thrive. The statutory relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance makes clear that teachers should b...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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