The UK Girl Guides will seek a new course on "safe sex" practice, highlighting its traditional Christian values.

The programme is based on results from a survey of more than 1,000 Girl Guides in Britain, asking them what life skills they think are most important. For senior Guides, girls aged 16 and over, the hands down top priority was "money management". Knowing how to practice "safe-sex" was fourth on the list.

Younger age groups placed more traditional skills at the top of their list. Aged 10 to 15, for example, stated that "cooking a healthy meal" was the most important skill.

Chief UK Girl Guide Liz Burnley said that future education programmes will be based on these results, according to The Times reports.

An organisation spokesperson also underlined that the Girl Guides would meet the request for added information on sex education.

At present there are 10 million Girl Guides throughout the world, and 500,000 reside in the UK.

Around 50 per cent of women in the UK have been involved with the Girl Guides at some point in their lives.