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Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
National guideline for the management of suspected sexually transmitted infections in children and young people
  1. A Thomas1,
  2. G Forster2,
  3. A Robinson3,
  4. K Rogstad4,
  5. for the Clinical Effectiveness Group (Association of Genitourinary Medicine and the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases)
  1. 1Department of Community Paediatrics, St James’s University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
  2. 2Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Ambrose King Centre, Royal London Hospital, Turner Street, London E1 1BB, UK
  3. 3The Mortimer Market Centre, Off Capper Street, London WC1E 6AU, UK
  4. 4Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Glossop Road, Sheffield S10 2JF, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
    Amanda Thomas;
    amanda.thomas{at}leedsth.nhs.uk

Abstract

The Children Act 19891 defines a child as “a person who has not yet reached 18 years of age.” In England, Wales, and Scotland the present age of consent for heterosexual and homosexual sex is 16 years and in Northern Ireland it is 17 years. The proportion of young people who report heterosexual intercourse before the age of 16 years increased in the 1990s compared with the previous decade.2

  • guidelines
  • STIs
  • children
  • adolescents

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.88.4.303

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    Footnotes

    • Reproduced in full with permission from Sex Transm Infect 2002;78:324–331.