relationships and sex education

Sex and relationships education: The main changes for 2026

No age limits, gender identity teaching ban dropped and primaries ‘encouraged’ to teach about same-sex parents – all you need to know …

Is ‘inappropriate’ sex education ‘widespread’? Keegan doesn’t know

Education secretary also uses claim about ’72 genders’ thought to originate from a school outside England

New sex education guidance proposals: What schools need to know

Age limits on ‘sensitive’ topics, a ban on teaching about gender identity and new content on sexual harassment and suicide set out in DfE consultation

DfE will consider new requirement to teach about suicide prevention

Minister: Mental health will be ‘priority area’ in the upcoming review of relationships, sex and health education guidance

Ofsted: ‘Confused’ schools want clearer guidance on LGBT teaching

Schools want clearer guidance to help them teach about “sensitive and difficult subjects” like sexual orientation and gender reassignment, amid “confusion” about their obligations, Ofsted has warned. The schools watchdog today released research commentary on teaching about sex, sexual orientation and gender reassignment. Ofsted said there was “a significant lack of research” into how schools […]

How schools became the battleground of Cummings’s culture war

Schools have been hurled into the centre of a “culture war” by the publication of unexpected guidance thought to have originated in Downing Street that targets divisive educational issues. This has all the hallmarks of having been thrown in by No 10 in the expectation that there will be a massive row Documents supposedly meant […]

DfE to clarify ‘intent’ of controversial new RSE guidance

The government is set to issue a statement clarifying the “intent” of additional relationships and sex education guidance published last week, amid reports of confusion and fear among teachers, campaigners have said. Some of the teachers who have contacted us have really been very concerned Liz Moorse, chief executive the Association of Citizenship Teaching, told […]

‘Cancel culture’, gender stereotypes and ‘extreme political stances’: What new DfE guidance says about RSE

New guidance on the teaching of relationships and sex education has been published by the Department for Education. The advice is meant to compliment statutory guidance on the subjects published by the government last year. Schools are supposed to start teaching the subjects this year, but were told they didn’t need to start in September […]

Ofsted will check school ‘readiness’ to teach relationships and sex education from January

Schools will have their “readiness” to teach the new relationships and sex education curriculum assessed by Ofsted from January, the watchdog has said. And schools failing to teach about LGBT relationships from the summer term in 2021 risk a ‘requires improvement’ judgment for their leadership and management. New guidance issued by Ofsted this morning confirms […]