Key Voices

This week we talk to Josie Rayner-Wells, National RSHE advisor, about the new Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)  requirements that came into effect in September 2020 but that schools still might be working to respond to. Josie gives very practical advice about how to consult parents, pupils and staff on RSE and move their provision on. Reassuringly she explains how schools that feel stuck in their progress on parental consultation can use remote methods to their advantage and take some more creative and potentially fruitful approaches.   We talk about:  Josie’s hugely varied experience working and training on RSE Why new guidance and legislation is necessary  The important focus on relationships and health in the new guidance Why consultation is a “need-to-do”, not a “nice-to-do”  Practical ways to address concerns staff might have about teaching sensitive material and how to make sure staff understand how the school’s policy supports them  How to do effective remote parental consultation and why it is im