As secondary schools begin to think about delivering statutory RSE in September 2020, Lucy Emmerson offers a roadmap to help plan ahead

Getting ready for September 2020, when every school must be delivering a programme of relationships and sex education (RSE), can seem a daunting task – especially if it hasn’t been a priority in your school until now.

But becoming a school that does RSE well, and does it well for all pupils, is simpler than you think.

The Sex Education Forum has teamed up with the PSHE Association and a number of education unions (NAHT, ASCL, NEU, Unison and Voice), to produce a roadmap to high-quality RSE.

Based on our experience of training thousands of teachers, the roadmap breaks the journey to high-quality RSE into manageable steps. We recommend that heads and senior leaders start taking steps now because there may be timetabling and staffing implications for your school that require more substantial lead-in time. So here are the steps you should consider:

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