The Oxford Mail has done a great service to Oxford and Banbury by printing the names of schools being considered for a pilot scheme to ensure that the morning after pill is easily available to pupils as young as 11 years of age.

Six dedicated school health nurses (cost: £300,000) will operate the scheme. But who will the nurses be responsible to – Oxfordshire County Council, the Primary Care Trust or the school authority?

We also read that the ‘hotspot’ schools do not themselves have high teenage conception rates, but happen to be situated in areas that do. So why target the schools?

The proposed scheme has been shrouded in secrecy. Was this to circumvent all possible opposition? Were the council and PCT hoping that as the scheme only involved the school nurse and pupils, nobody would ever know the details?

In the past 10 years £290m has been spent on sex education and has resulted in record levels of teenage pregnancies, abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, child parents and many ruined lives.

The proposed scheme is an attempt to cover up the failure of sex education. School children can request the morning after pill, which is 50 times more potent than the contraceptive pill.

The problem is not the lack of information, or availability of contraception, but the abandonment of Christian moral values which is having a corrosive effect on society.

We are sliding deeper into a moral quagmire and the effects will be devastating to society.

Dermot R Carroll, Wilkins Road, Cowley, Oxford