The new programme will be mandatory for all senior second level students from 2027.
Education on consent, pornography and mental wellbeing is to become mandatory for all senior second level students.
An updated SPHE programme will be introduced for Leaving Cert Applied students from September next year, and for all students from 2027.
Less than 20% of secondary schools currently offer the subject for senior cycle.
Psychotherapist, Birr's Stella O'Malley, says there are certain topics teenagers need to learn about after the junior cycle:
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