These regulations give effect to the duty on the Secretary of State in section 34 of the Children and Social Work Act 2017 to make provision by regulations requiring relationships education to be provided to pupils of compulsory school age receiving primary education and relationships and sex education to be provided to pupils receiving secondary education. The regulations also exercise the power, in section 35 of the 2017 Act, to require health education to be provided to all pupils of compulsory school age receiving primary education in state-funded schools and all pupils receiving secondary education in state-funded schools.