£2m on 'failed' sex education scheme

More money down the drain. News from the Executive that they will waste yet another £2m on a:

Controversial sex education programme which is to be expanded across the Lothians, despite a critical report which claimed it had failed to improve young people’s sexual health.

According to a report from academics at Aberdeen University, there is "little evidence indicating improved sexual health outcomes for young people in Lothian" since Healthy Respect was launched. It also found the overall teenage conception rate in Lothian was consistently higher than in Scotland as a whole.

Do you think we could spend this money on the 3rd Tram Line instead.

The Scotsman reports on it here: Executive to spend an extra £2m on 'failed' sex education scheme
Evening News coverage here: More cash for under-fire sex health scheme

Update:
Health Minister Andy Kerr gives his opinion here. As usual he gives a 'healthy' dose of spin without addressing the fact that the experts are saying that his scheme has 'failed' and why is he spending another £2m on this nightmare.

The Herald also covers the failure here.

An external evaluation of the scheme, which has been running since 2001 and has cost £3.5m, found that, in the three key areas of reducing the number of under-16s having sex, teenage pregnancies and teenage abortions, there was no change.