Healthy, happy, safe: an investigation into how PSHE and SRE are inspected in English schools
This report analyses over 2000 primary and secondary school inspection reports for 2015/16.
This report analyses over 2000 primary and secondary school inspection reports for 2015/16.
Sex and relationship education (SRE) is regarded as vital to improving young people's sexual health, but a third of schools in England lacks good SRE and government guidance is outdated.
Objectives: Although sex and relationship education (SRE) represents a key strand in policies to safeguard young people and improve their sexual health, it currently lacks statutory status, government guidance is outdated and a third of UK schools has poor-quality SRE.
The Sex Education Forum ran an online survey for 6 weeks, from 2 November 2015 to 10 December 2015. The aim was to find out if young people have learnt about their body, sexual development and consent at school and whether or not their school SRE met their needs in this area.
The Department of Education Circular 2013/16 requires every school to have an up-to-date written policy on how it will address the delivery of Relationships and Sexuality Education. This guidance offers advice for schools on how to develop and review their policy.
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety's Sexual Health Strategy identified Relationships and Sexuality Education as a priority in improving the sexual health and well-being of young people.
This Sex Education Forum guidance is designed to support schools in reviewing and updating their policy on sex and relationships education (SRE).
This new guidance developed by the PSHE Association, Brook, and Sex Education Forum supplements 2000 statutory guidance on SRE.
The aim of this guidance document is to help schools to produce their sex and relationships education (SRE) policy. It provides a list of questions and considerations to structure a policy document, and it suggests some possibile openings.
Personal Social Health and Economic (PSHE) education is a non-statutory school subject designed to facilitate the delivery of a number of key competencies relevant to health, safety and wellbeing.