ABSTRACT
Sex and relationship education (SRE) is regarded as vital to improving young people's sexual health, but a third of schools in England lack good SRE, and government guidance is outdated. If they're lucky, some pupils are going to live a life filled with relationships. They will be negotiating attachment, attraction, jealousy, envy, rejection, betrayal and forgiveness. For many of them, their bodies, brains and minds have already been scarred by trauma. Whatever the government does or doesn't mandate, and whatever is or isn't written on the school documents, they are teaching PSHE (personal, social and health education) and/or SRE (sex and relationships education) all the time. Even if reader are not an explicitly designated PSHE teacher, you are teaching it in all kinds of ways.
