ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to demonstrate how vital it is to get the parents and careers involved with Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) provision. It explores how people can develop their partnerships and their understanding of concerns and fears that parents and careers hold when it comes to RSE. RSE is frequently portrayed in our media in the most extreme terms, with schools cast as moral battlegrounds for the hearts and minds of our learners, and of their parents. With the media doing their well-practiced scaremongering and politicians not always defending the well-rounded and convincing argument for statutory RSE, it remains a contentious issue and therefore parents and carers can be no clearer if not properly informed. RSE is lifelong learning about physical, moral and emotional development. It is about understanding the importance of healthy relationships, in their various guises, sexuality and sexual health.
