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Sex education is still seen as being the biology bit. A new campaign is emphasising the other side of this crucial subject – relationships, emotions and growing up. Dr Hilary Emery explains.

At the end of last year the Sex Education Forum (SEF) celebrated 25 years since its launch in 1987. Over those last 25 years, the SEF has been instrumental in a number of key changes that have improved the provision of sex and relationships education (SRE) for young people, notably the inclusion of SRE in the national curriculum PSHE framework and the publication of guidance for schools.

The SEF’s strength is the consensus of their diverse membership of religious, educational, health, youth, family and disability organisations. However the uncertainty about the status of PSHE in the curriculum has created a vacuum that some have used as an opportunity to try and chip away at sector confidence. 

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