Sex and Relationship Education

(asked on 8th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans he has in place to enable early adopter schools of Relationships and Sex Education to feed back to his Department on (a) the effectiveness of its implementation and (b) whether further assistance is required to enable the teaching of high-quality lessons; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 17th January 2020

​The Department is working with over 1600 schools who are acting as early adopters of Relationships Education; Relationships and Sex Education (RSE); and Health Education, and began teaching the new requirements from September 2019. We have been working with these early adopter schools to develop a programme of support. Recently four national conferences took place to help early adopters plan for delivery of the new subjects, and to learn about their current practices.

This engagement with early adopter schools is helping the Department develop its programme of support for the new subjects, which will be available to all teachers from spring 2020. The programme will focus on tools that improve schools’ practice and will offer opportunities for teachers to improve subject knowledge, build confidence and share best practice. This support will be accessed through a new online service and will include an implementation guide, which will accompany the statutory guidance, case studies from early adopter schools, and innovative materials to support staff training. The Department will continue to test this package with early adopter schools.

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