School leaders on Thursday insisted that PSHE lessons are vital for pupils and help them withstand the pressures of modern society - amid controversy on the teaching of topics such as gender identity.

The PSHE Association Chief Executive launches a new report setting out the latest compelling evidence for making PSHE education a statutory part of the curriculum. Today, the PSHE Association launches ...

Four key Commons committees are asking the education secretary to make Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education compulsory in schools. The education, health, home affairs and business ...

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has refused to make personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE) compulsory in schools, despite a lengthy campaign by a coalition of charities and MPs. Also ...

Momentum continues to build for statutory PSHE education with three major teaching unions - NUT, ATL and NAHT adding their support for compulsory status. This support for statutory PSHE from teachers ...

The Department for Education needs to do more to help schools improve personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) teaching, Ofsted and campaigners have said. The calls follow publication of a report ...

Children can be exposed to graphic images through their smart phone devices Teachers are open to accusations of "brainwashing children" when teaching sex and relationship education, says head teachers ...

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The explicit video, the awkward teachers, the unanswered questions. Yep, we all remember our first sex ed class. But the way they’re run is about to change forever. MPs have said that children should ...

Teachers are open to accusations of "brainwashing children" when teaching sex and relationship education, says head teachers' union the NAHT. Its leader, Russell Hobby, said the fact PSHE, the subject ...