Primary pupils 'need sex lessons'

Children as young as 10 should

be taught about contraception

in their final year at primary school,

a leading think-tank says.

The recommendation, by the Institute

for Public Policy Research, comes after

its study showed British teenagers are

the most sexually active in Europe.

It also found the UK had the highest

teen pregnancy rate while almost one in

three 15-year-olds did not use condoms.

The Department for Education

says the UK's teenage pregnancy

rate is falling.

The report, Freedom's Orphans:

Raising Youth in a Changing World,

is released in full next month.

Currently all schools in England

and Wales have to teach sex education

to 11 to 14-year-olds as part of the science

curriculum.

But schools can choose to teach it

through Personal, Social and

Health Education (PSHE).

The IPPR wants this to be mandatory.