![]() “If teachers are not trained in best practices to have these conversations safely, they are not going to be able to choose materials which meet those principles as well,” Baggaley said.Ĭoncern over the way primary and secondary schools can teach RSHE has caused the government to speed up its planned review into the guidance around the subject, with a public consultation expected later this year. Yet there are ways to do this incredibly safely and effectively. “There are ways to do that which could be damaging, in which you might instruct or even inspire practices of self-harm or in the context of eating disorders. Jonathan Baggaley, chief executive of the PSHE Association – representing teachers of personal, social health and economics wellbeing topics – said that untrained teachers would struggle to deliver lessons on highly sensitive subjects such as self-harm. ![]() ![]() Because, unfortunately, that’s what young people are complaining about, that sometimes that’s all the lessons are.”īecause RSHE was relatively new, “there haven’t been specialist teachers in the numbers that we need, there hasn’t always been space in the timetable or planning time, or the leadership support” in schools, Emmerson said. “And not to just put a video on and think that’s going to do the job. It relies on the confidence of a teacher to open up discussion to a diverse group and to manage some of those complexities,” Emmerson said. “This isn’t something that you can just reel off some facts about.
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