Working with children,for children
To help you find key data and research evidence relating to SRE and sexual health this section provides:
Scroll down to see research, surveys and evidence briefings published by the Sex Education Forum.
Sex Education Forum research and surveys
Young people's views
Survey report: young people's experiences of HIV and AIDS education (2011) [PDF 450KB] Forum briefing: young people's survey on Sex and Relationships Education (2008)[PDF 478KB] Teachers's views Forum briefing: teacher's survey on Sex and Relationships Education (2008) [PDF 95KB]
Parents and SRE (2011) [PDF 3000KB] This accessible summary of the research finds that parents are very supportive of SRE but that in practice parents are often failing to discuss sex and realtionships with their children as much as they wish to. Also looks at factors that limit or enable good communication between parents and children. (We are aware of a problem with this file, affecting users of Internet Explorer. If you have difficulties opening the file either update your version of Adobe PDF Reader or open the document using another browser, such as Firefox.)
Does SRE work? (2010) [PDF 800KB] Briefing setting out the international research evidence about the impact of SRE and what makes SRE effective - includes country case-studies.
Abstinence-only' Education (2004) [PDF 50KB] Briefing looking at some of the evidence on teenage pregnancy to reflect on why the Sex Education Forum does not support the abstinence-only approach.
Key findings - Sex and relationships education in further education settings (2010) - [PDF 230 KB] 'Key findings' provides a summary of the three pieces of research listed below.
Exploratory Research - Sex and relationships education in further education settings (NCB, 2009) [PDF 416 KB] Investigating training and resources - Sex and relationships education in further education settings (2010) [PDF 398 KB] Young people with learning disabilities - Sex and relationships education in further education settings (2010) [PDF 337 KB]
National mapping survey of on-site sexual health services in education settings: Provision in schools and pupil referral units in England (2008)[PDF 2.6 MB]
National mapping survey of on-site sexual health services in education settings: provision in FE and sixth form colleges (2008) [PDF 2.6 MB] Please note that the data in this report was correct at January 2008 and there have since been changes in some colleges in status of service provision. Despite efforts to achieve accuracy in the data collected it has been brought to the attention of the Sex Education Forum that there are errors in respect to a small number of colleges (less than 1% of the total). In particular we would like to apologise to Cardinal Newman College who are reported as having 'basic services' and actually have 'no services'.