Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she is taking steps to ensure the Highway Code is taught in schools.

The revised relationships, sex and health education guidance was published on 15 July and includes a new personal safety section. Curriculum content includes how to identify risk and manage personal safety in increasingly independent situations, including around roads, railways, including level crossings, and water.

The government has established an independent Curriculum and Assessment Review, chaired by Becky Francis CBE.

The Review aims to ensure a rich, broad, inclusive and innovative curriculum that readies young people for life and work. The Review Group published its Interim Report in March 2025 here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6821d69eced319d02c9060e3/Curriculum_and_Assessment_Review_interim_report.pdf.

The group will publish its final report with recommendations this autumn.​