Sex and relationships education (SRE) is a topic I’ve returned to on several occasions in SecEd because, and I speak from personal experience, it’s a subject that teachers often feel inadequately prepared to teach and for which guidance is lacking.
Simply put, the current advice from the Department for Education (DfE), to which all state-funded schools must pay “due regard”, is behind the times. Published in 2000, it fails to support teachers in making SRE relevant to children and young people who have grown up with the internet.
However, an invaluable supplement to the DfE guidance has been published by three charities with expertise in SRE – Brook, the PSHE Association and the Sex Education Forum – addressing important issues relating to sex and relationships that have emerged over the last decade.
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