With an oratory flourish, Knight dropped his policy bombshell at the Sex Education Forum conference and the response was ecstatic. It was perhaps the warmest reception to a policy announcement a schools minister has ever received.
NCB and its partners have spent the past decade calling for PSHE education to be made compulsory within the National Curriculum. Children and young people know that this subject, when delivered by well-trained teachers, has the potential to change lives. Yet they regularly report that their PSHE education fails them and, until recently, the lack of a convincing rationale prevented the subject from gaining traction in schools and reaching its full potential. At last we have a chance to put that right.
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