The NHS National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has just opened a consultation inviting feedback on Personal, social, health and economic education. They are focusing on sex and relationships and alcohol education and inviting consultation on the draft guidance.
The consultation is open from 17 June to 15 July 2010 and you can access all the relevant documentation here.
If you are working in the area of PHSE as a teacher, governor or healthcare provider then do please consider reading the NICE proposals and commenting on them. Parents, youth workers and young people’s groups are also encouraged to respond.
Currently the situation with sex education in the UK is unclear. As you may remember, sex education in the UK is not going to be statutory as we had expected due to a political U-turn earlier this year. So the more we can focus on ensuring quality education is kept in focus for both health and education the better.
What is particularly important about the focus from NICE is the emphasis on the role of parents in delivering relationships education, which will reassure those parents who’ve been led to believe by sex-negative media coverage that inappropriate sex education will be delivered to children without parental consent or involvement.
Please share this information and encourage people to respond to NICE. The more we discuss this issue the better off young people will be. And the more likely it will be they can experience happy and healthy relationships as adults.
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NICE Consultation now open: PHSE Education Focusing on Sex and Relationships and Alcohol
The NHS National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has just opened a consultation inviting feedback on Personal, social, health and economic education. They are focusing on sex and relationships and alcohol education and inviting consultation on the draft guidance.
The consultation is open from 17 June to 15 July 2010 and you can access all the relevant documentation here.
If you are working in the area of PHSE as a teacher, governor or healthcare provider then do please consider reading the NICE proposals and commenting on them. Parents, youth workers and young people’s groups are also encouraged to respond.
Currently the situation with sex education in the UK is unclear. As you may remember, sex education in the UK is not going to be statutory as we had expected due to a political U-turn earlier this year. So the more we can focus on ensuring quality education is kept in focus for both health and education the better.
What is particularly important about the focus from NICE is the emphasis on the role of parents in delivering relationships education, which will reassure those parents who’ve been led to believe by sex-negative media coverage that inappropriate sex education will be delivered to children without parental consent or involvement.
Please share this information and encourage people to respond to NICE. The more we discuss this issue the better off young people will be. And the more likely it will be they can experience happy and healthy relationships as adults.
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