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Relationships and sex education: The curriculum debate begins

Now the fight for statutory relationships and sex education has been won, Lisa Hallgarten says that getting the curriculum detail right will encourage teachers to embrace the subject and ensure it meets children’s needs

Whenever I meet leads of sex and relationships education (SRE) or PSHE they are frustrated not by the responsibility of providing SRE, but by the constraints they face to doing it as well as they’d like to.

They cite lack of curriculum time, lack of training and the requirement on them to wrestle their often more reluctant colleagues into teaching SRE too. They also worry because of a lack of clarity about what they need to teach and when, how to convince senior leadership of the necessity and value of the work, and how best to work with parents to reassure them that SRE supports the kind of healthy relationships they all want their children to have.

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