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<p>Teachers are currently able to cover topics relating to parenting in their wider
school curriculum, including in their personal, social, health and economic education
(PSHE) lessons. Many schools use the PSHE Association’s non-statutory programme of
study. The roles and responsibilities of the programme include parenting skills, the
value of family relationships, and the impact of separation, divorce and bereavement
on families.</p><p> </p><p>Under provisions in the Children and Social Work Act 2017,
the Government is making regulations to introduce mandatory Relationships Education
in all primary schools, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in all secondary schools
and Health Education in state-funded primary and secondary schools. The key aim of
Relationships Education is to put in place the building blocks needed for positive
and safe relationships of all kinds, starting with family and friends, and moving
out to other kinds of relationships, including online. RSE will also cover the importance
of healthy relationships and the roles and responsibilities of parents.</p><p> </p><p>Consultation
on draft regulations and associated guidance for the new subjects closed on 7 November.
The Department is currently considering the responses to the consultation, and plans
to finalise the regulations and guidance next year and lay the regulations for debate
in Parliament. Schools will be encouraged and supported to teach the new subjects
from September 2019, and it will be mandatory to do so from September 2020.</p>
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