As you’re probably aware, relationships and sex education (RSE) is set to become compulsory in all secondary schools (including academies, maintained and independent schools), from September 2019, through the Children and Social Work Act, 2017 (together with relationships education at primary phase).
This same act also gives the secretary of state for education the power to make PSHE education in its entirety statutory, subject to consultation.
The introduction of statutory RSE will bring with it long-overdue updated statutory guidance, which will be published in draft for consultation in the spring. But how can schools prepare for statutory RSE when the guidance is not yet published and there is still a long way to go before we know for sure whether the rest of PSHE education will be made statutory as well?
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