Sex education can be provided, and indeed is best provided, through a number of different routes.These include parents and the media as well as school-based sex education. However, while sex education is often discussed, particularly in the press, surprisingly little is known about the current provision of sex education in many schools and what is known is based on anecdotal evidence. It was for this reason AVERT decided to conduct a survey that examined the general condition of sex education by providing quantitative data.