Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent discussions her Department has had with relevant stakeholders on relationships education in schools in (a) Hexham constituency, (b) Northumberland, (c) Newcastle and (d) the North East.

​​​It is compulsory for schools to teach relationships education for primary school pupils, relationships and sex education for secondary school pupils and health education for all pupils in state-funded schools.

​The department held roundtables with a number of stakeholders, experts, teachers and local authorities from across the country, including from Northumberland and other areas of the North East, to discuss the revised relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) statutory guidance prior to its final publication on 15 July here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68b8499e11b4ded2da19fd92/Relationships_education__relationships_and_sex_education_and_health_education_-_statutory_guidance.pdf.

​In addition, the department met with the North East Youth Peer Action Collective who shared their research findings on young people’s views of the RSHE curriculum.