On the day that the Children and Social Work Act 2017 received Royal Assent sighs of relief could be heard across the land. The decades-long campaign for statutory relationships and sex education (RSE) has been characterised by near misses, and in the days following announcement of the snap General Election the Sex Education Forum (SEF) was inundated with requests from people checking whether the Act was in jeopardy.
With Royal Assent in place we are confident that there should be no obstacle to progress. The secretary of state for education, Justine Greening, demonstrated her commitment to RSE in the last Parliament. Her re-appointment as education secretary should provide the continuity needed to keep everything on track.
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