7 Conclusion
149. Better PSHE and SRE has the potential to help
efforts to address many 'problems' in society, including teenage
pregnancy, STI rates, drug and alcohol abuse, cyberbullying, and
child sexual exploitation. While the role of schools in tackling
these should not be overplayed, young people have a right to information
that will help keep them healthy, happy and safe. It is appropriate
that schools should be required to provide this information, working
closely with parents. Parents are the first and most important
educators of their children. In fulfilling this new duty schools
should be required to engage fully with parents and ensure an
effective home-school partnership in delivering PSHE and SRE.
150. We recognise that simply placing additional
duties on schools is not sufficient in itself. The vision of a
trained PSHE teacher in every primary and secondary school is
achievable through funded CPD. Accountability through Ofsted inspections
must be retained. Together these measures can produce the step
change in the quality of PSHE which the subject desperately needs
if young people are to be better equipped to tackle life in 21st
century Britain.
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