Celebration of SRE success

Thursday 23 April 2009

Celebrating Sex and Relationships Education - Past, Present and Future marks the success of the Sex Education Forum (SEF) in campaigning for statutory sex and relationships education (SRE) and is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of SRE in schools.

The book, now available to buy, reports on the historic day schools minister Jim Knight announced the government's intention to make personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education statutory.

A review of PSHE is now under way and there will be a public consultation later this year. In the meantime, schools can take steps to improve the quality of the SRE they provide. This book includes practical examples of how schools can involve young people, parents and the wider community in providing good quality SRE.

Lucy Emmerson, acting SEF co-ordinator, said: "Young people tell us they learn about relationships, sex and sexuality from a variety of sources, but want information they can trust. By bringing together research evidence, suggestions from young people and ideas from practitioners, this book shows how to improve SRE."

For more information, visit the Publications page.