Low take-up by schools of free government training on how to teach relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) has prompted concerns that many teachers may be ill-equipped to deliver the statutory programme.
In response to a recent parliamentary question, school standards minister Robin Walker confirmed that just 4,800 out of 24,000 schools in England received training from the government’s “teach the teacher” and peer support programme around RSHE delivery in 2020/21.
Walker said the programme, which has now ended, was designed as a “cascade model” of training so that those who received it shared the learning with other teachers in their wider school networks. Other DfE training modules on RSHE are available for schools to download for free, he added.
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