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Three of the country's leading experts in Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) have launched Supplementary Advice to complement the Government's statutory guidance on SRE, and to support teachers in improving the delivery of the topic in schools.
Brook, the PSHE Association and the Sex Education Forum collaborated on the production of the advice, which provides information to teachers on topics that are missing from current Guidance published in 2000, including issues about pornography, the safe use of technology, sexual consent, violence and exploitation.
Schools Minister Lord Nash said:
“I welcome the work of the PSHE Association, Sex Education Forum and Brook on new supplementary advice to complement statutory SRE guidance.”
Simon Blake OBE, Chief Executive of Brook said:
"Young people have been telling us for years that SRE is not relevant to their lives and they want better. We think they deserve better, and in 2011 we asked them what 21st Century SRE should look like. Young people’s views from this and other channels over the last two years have influenced this piece of work.”
Joe Hayman of the PSHE Association added:
"Teachers want more support too. Our members tell us that the training they receive and the resources at their disposal too often leave them unprepared when it comes to teaching this vital subject – something confirmed by Ofsted in 2013. The Supplementary Advice is designed to help schools to find answers to some of the questions they most commonly ask and which the current Guidance does not answer.”
Jane Lees, Chair of the Sex Education Forum, said:
"We have members from across the health, education and children’s sectors and they all support high quality SRE in schools. While we believe that more must be done to guarantee SRE in all schools, we hope this Supplementary Advice moves us a little closer to helping schools provide what young people need."
The Supplementary Advice is supported by the DfE and a range of other government, education and voluntary sector stakeholders. The three organisations that have produced the advice, all of which have campaigned for SRE for many years, decided to act as a coalition and resource the work themselves.
‘Sex and Relationships Education for the 21st Century’ can be downloaded from the three organisations’ websites and from the TES website.
For further information, please contact press@brook.org.uk or call 020 7284 6046.
Notes to editors
The Supplementary Advice will be available for download from 10am on Friday 28th February at the following websites:
legacy.brook.org.uk/supplementaryadvice
www.sexeducationforum.org.uk/resources/sre-advice-for-schools.aspx
www.pshe-association.org.uk/SREadvice
About Brook
Brook is the UK’s leading provider of sexual health services, education and advice for young people under 25. The charity has 50 years of experience working with young people and currently has services in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Jersey. Brook’s clinical, helpline, counselling and education services reaches more than 280,000 young people every year.
For more information visit: legacy.brook.org.uk.
Twitter: @BrookCharity
About the PSHE Association
The PSHE Association is the leading national body for Personal, Social, Health and Economic education. We are a charity and a membership association supporting over 7,500 PSHE teachers and other practitioners to raise the standard of PSHE teaching in their schools through training, conferences and production of teaching resources. The Association also promotes the benefits of PSHE education nationally and we actively make the case for a statutory entitlement to high-quality PSHE for every child. For more information visit www.pshe-association.org.uk
Twitter: @PSHEassociation
About The Sex Education Forum
The Sex Education Forum is the national authority on sex and relationships education (SRE) and is hosted at the National Children’s Bureau. We believe that good quality SRE is an entitlement for all children and young people and we are working with our member organisations - including religious, children's, parents, health and education organisations - to achieve this. For further information visit: www.sexeducationforum.org.uk
Twitter: @sex_ed_forum
For media enquiries please contact Brook's press office on 07789 682831 or email press@brook.org.uk
Notes to editors
Brook believes that young people should have access to great sexual health services and wellbeing support.
Brook provides free and confidential sexual health information, contraception, pregnancy testing, advice and counselling, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and education programmes, reaching nearly 235,000 young people nationwide every year.
Read our Strategic Plan 2017-2020 and learn more about the difference we make in our latest Success Report.
