The finding is among those from a best practice research paper looking at what makes RSE education effective and sustainable.
The paper – What is best practice in sex and relationship education? – was published earlier this year by the British Medical Journal and offers schools a list of 27 best practice criteria by which to evaluate existing programmes and provision.
It comes as schools prepare for the introduction of statutory RSE in September 2019 (to be called relationships education in primary schools). MPs approved the plans earlier this year and work is now beginning to draft the new-look RSE curriculum.
For the study, the academics drew on interviews with practitioners across England, existing research into young people’s views of RSE and data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles.
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