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News has broken that a 13-year-old girl has had an implant inserted at her school in Southampton without parental consent, and the country has been plunged into yet another taboo-fraught half-conversation about the morals of underage sex.

Just as we must trust maths teachers to deliver GCSE maths, we must also trust that, wherever it is delivered, contraceptive advice and treatment is provided by suitably qualified professionals working to strict professional and legal standards (including the Fraser guidelines). We are not talking here about dinner ladies popping in an contraceptive implant during the lunch break. We are talking about the provision of services by doctors or nurses - the only people allowed to fit implants.