Government call for feedback on PSHE and RSE from you and your pupils
Tuesday 19th December 2017
The Department for Education has today launched a call for evidence as part of its consultation on PSHE education, including RSE. The aim is to inform the DfE’s next steps regarding PSHE education, including relationships education and relationships & sex education (RSE). This is a great opportunity to make the case for statutory PSHE, and RSE’s role within it, so we strongly urge you to contribute by the 12 February deadline.
This consultation follows Government commitments in this year’s Children and Social Work Act to make RSE statutory in all secondary schools from 2019, make ‘relationships education’ statutory in all primaries, and to consider statutory status for PSHE education in its entirety, pending consultation.
We’re pleased to see that the DfE are very keen to get young people’s views as part of the consultation as they will be the ultimate beneficiaries of positive changes to this area of the curriculum.
To support this, The PSHE Association has launched a free KS3 & 4 lesson plan to help you run a short session which gathers young people’s priorities for PSHE education and RSE. The development of materials for collecting feedback from primary aged children is currently being considered.
