Sex and Relationships Education, which deals with consent, equality and respect is not currently compulsory in UK schools.

Campaigners who wrote to the leaders of five English political parties asking them to commit to compulsory Sex & Relationships Education (SRE) if elected in May have published the responses they received.

While Nick Clegg, for the LibDems, Ed Miliband for Labour and Natalie Bennett, for the Greens, all said that they were committed to introducing compulsory SRE as a key measure for preventing abuse of women and girls, David Cameron said that the Conservatives would leave the decision of whether and how to teach SRE to individual schools.