Age of Consent

Learning to listen, listening to learn.

Birkbeck School and
Community Arts College

Alcohol and sex are two things which play a big part in all our lives... especially those of teenagers – and, more and more, even pre-teens. We wanted to find out whether all the things we’re told about drink and sex and young people really are true... that’s why we decided to survey over half the students at our school. You can look at the results and see for yourself what we found. You may be surprised! Lots of young people obviously pay no attention to the ‘age of consent’ of 16...


1 in 6 12-13 year olds [in our survey] say they’ve had sexual intercourse.”