Annex B: resources for Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education
Updated 13 September 2021
Applies to England
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This is a section of the Statutory guidance: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education.
Annex B: suggested resources
Teaching resources
There are many excellent, free resources available for schools to use when providing these subjects. Schools should carefully assess each resource they propose to use to ensure they are appropriate for the age and maturity of pupils and sensitive to their needs. Where relevant, schools should use resources that are medically accurate. Schools should also consider the expertise of the main subject associations who often quality assure third-party resources.
We also recognise that schools use resources from representative bodies, for example, many Catholic and other schools use the model curricula provided by the Catholic Education Service.
Schools should also ensure that when they consult parents they provide examples of the resources they plan to use. This can be reassuring for parents and enables them to continue the conversations started in class at home.
The list below is for illustrative purposes and is not exhaustive.
Relationships Education
Relationships and Sex Education
- Sexwise - up-to-date information on all aspects of sexual and reproductive health
- Abuse in relationships: Disrespect NoBody (Home Office and Government Equalities Office) from PSHE
- Consent: PSHE Association lesson plans
- LGBT inclusivity: Stonewall lesson plans and materials for primary and secondary
- Public Health England website - resources covering relationships and bullying, alcohol, smoking, stress, body image, with videos made by young people and resources tested with teachers
- Example model secondary curricula from Catholic Education
Mental health
- Mental health and emotional wellbeing: PSHE Association lesson plans
- MindEd educational resources on children and young people’s mental health
Online safety
- Education for a Connected World: UKCCIS framework of digital knowledge and skills for different ages and stages
- Sexting: UKCCIS advice for schools on preventative education and managing reports of sexting
Thinkuknow - the education programme from National Crime Agency (NCA)-Child Exploitation Online Programme (CEOP), which protects children both online and offline. The site offers materials for parents, teachers and pupils on a wide range of online safety issues and facts about areas such as digital footprints, recognising fake websites and checking URLs.
PSHE
PSHE Association Programme of study for KS1-5
Drugs and alcohol
Teacher training on drugs, alcohol and tobacco - a training module for primary and secondary schools to use to train staff to teach about drugs, alcohol and tobacco
Extremism and radicalisation
Educate Against Hate - practical advice and information for teachers, teachers in leadership positions and parents on protecting children from extremism and radicalization from
Curriculum
Non-statutory framework for Citizenship KS 1 and 2 (Non-statutory programme of study). Schools may wish to use the Citizenship programme of study in their planning.
Data to understand the health and wellbeing needs of the local school-age population
Public Health England’s Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network brings together a range of publicly available data, information, reports, tools and resources on child and maternal health into one easily accessible place. It includes:
The indicators allow areas to see how they perform against the national average and against other local areas. These tools, accompanied by local health intelligence, are useful in supporting schools to identify and respond to the particular health and wellbeing needs of their local school-age population.
There are also early years profiles.