New RSHE Guidance: Consultation ends 11th July 2024
Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) is a subject taught at both primary and secondary school.
Last year, the Prime Minister and Education Secretary brought forward the first review of the curriculum following reports of pupils being taught inappropriate content in RSHE in some schools.
The draft guidance is now open to consultation. When final, the guidance will be statutory and schools will be expected to follow it.
Please find the official draft document here.
You can find the consultation here.
Support from The Talk About Trust
The Talk about Trust is a youth charity that supports children and young people to stay safer around alcohol and other substances across the UK. We provide resources and training for teachers and youth professionals, support and advice for parents and carers and interactive games, websites and information for young people aged 11- 25.
Resources can be accessed by schools, youth clubs, sports clubs, SEN settings, children’s homes FREE of CHARGE and we also provide the necessary training and guidance from our regionally based staff in how to use the resources to their full. Please contact Kate - kate@talkabouttrust.org with any requests for hard copies of resources.
Talk About Trust website offers a wealth of excellent resources organised by topic and year group.
Keeping Young People Safe
Our latest initiative at The Ben Kinsella Trust, the Keeping Young People Safe evaluation, offers crucial insights into the effectiveness of our Choices and Consequences programme.
Conducted between 2022 and 2023, this comprehensive evaluation gathered responses from nearly 10,000 young people and over 200 teachers and practitioners who participated in our workshop.
The Choices and Consequences programme is an interactive and emotive workshop designed to raise awareness about the severe impacts of knife crime among young people. Our programme has successfully reached over 35,000 young people to date, underscoring its broad influence and importance in combatting knife crime through education and engagement.
Healthy Relationships
The Traveller Movement created a Healthy Relationships Toolkit to help young people spot the warning signs of abuse and know their rights in a relationship
Find out more about consent, online safety, gender roles and relationship red flags here.
Concerns grow about children choking on food
Amid growing concerns about children choking on food, the Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT) has launched a new fact sheet with essential safety advice.
The fact sheet offers practical tips for parents and carers, especially of babies and toddlers who are at greatest risk as they are still learning how to eat safely. It is also available in Welsh.
Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning
Welcome to Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning. This is an umbrella organisation for Gloucestershire Healthy Schools and Gloucestershire Healthy FE (Further Education).
GHLL was launched in July 2012 for schools and colleges across Gloucestershire, supported by Leading Teachers.
Funding is through Public Health and by Gloucestershire County Council. Schools and colleges are offered this supported intervention at no cost.