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Online RSE support is vital

Government plans to overhaul relationships education are doomed to fail without online resources to guide teenagers, says Catherine Barker

Do the pupils leaving your school have the skills and knowledge they need to thrive and flourish, both in the next stage of their education or training, and as adults?

Well, in launching the recent consultation on relationships and sex education (RSE), the government stated that it wants “all young people to feel equipped to have healthy and respectful relationships, so they can succeed in adult life in modern Britain”.

If RSE is going to contribute to such success it will need to be about more than a safe context for sex, and it won’t be achieved simply through one or two slots in a crowded curriculum or tutor group programme.

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