9/10/2025

Council leaders have warned that teenage pregnancies are beginning to rise again after decades of progress, calling for urgent Government action.

8/4/2025

Councils across England are partnering with the NHS to deliver a world-first public health initiative—the rollout of a gonorrhoea vaccination programme.

6/3/2025

The Local Government Association (LGA) has called for a 10-year sexual health strategy as services face unprecedented pressure.

5/21/2025

The NHS and local government have partnered on the roll-out of a world-first vaccine programme to prevent gonorrhoea.

9/19/2024

Local authority leaders have urged the Government to use the upcoming Autumn Budget to invest in sexual and reproductive health services.

9/10/2024

The Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) has urged the Government to commit to a sexual and reproductive health strategy after a decade of cuts.

8/14/2024

Sue Bunn, Commercial Director, Inform Health, looks at how sexual health services are levelling up to better protect children from harm.

6/4/2024

Council leaders have called on the next Government to launch a 10-year sexual health strategy after new figures reveal rise in sexually transmitted infections.

1/22/2024

Rising cases of sexually transmitted infections and decreasing levels of funding are pushing sexual health services to ‘breaking point’, according to the Local Government Association.

6/6/2023

Local council-commissioned sexual health services are at ‘breaking point’, warn local authority leaders.

9/29/2022

Almost half of secondary school teachers say they don’t feel confident teaching sex and relationships education, a new survey has revealed.

9/11/2020

Women in England are struggling to access contraception putting them at risk of unplanned pregnancies, MPs have warned.

9/3/2020

The Government has urged people to practice safer sex after data reveals that gonorrhoea cases in England have risen by 26%.

2/27/2020

Care leaders should promote a culture that keeps people in social care safe from sexual abuse and supports them in expressing their sexuality, regulator says.

2/5/2020

Over 30 organisations have joined together in an effort to make London the first city in the world to stop new HIV infections.

2/5/2020

Local authority leaders have called for more investment into public health services as a new report reveals that there is an STI diagnosis every 70 seconds in England.

10/25/2019

Local authority leaders have called on the Government to ensure that its updated sexual and reproductive health strategy is ‘fully funded’.

6/3/2019

Members of Parliament have called for a new national strategy to ensure high quality sexual health services for all.

10/1/2018

Maintaining sexual health services at current levels will be difficult unless cuts in public health services are reversed, local government leaders warn.

9/3/2018

Sexual health services in England are under 'huge pressure' due to a record 3.3 million visits a year, council leaders have warned.

6/5/2018

Cuts to public health budgets have made tackling sexually transmitted infections a ‘significant challenge’, warn local authority leaders.

5/14/2018

Nurses have warned cuts to public health budgets are forcing them to turn people away from sexual health clinics due to the resulting staff shortages.

12/19/2017

Transgender issues will be taught as part of sex and relationship education classes in primary and secondary schools, according to the Government

11/3/2017

One in three local authorities have reduced or plan to reduce the number of sites delivering contraceptive services in the last two years, FoI request reveals.

9/25/2017

Young people should be educated about the risks of HIV to minimise their chances of catching the illness, according to HIV Scotland.

4/6/2017

Councils and sexual health services should provide free condoms in order to tackle sexually transmitted infections (STIs), Government health body says.