Understand your school's requirements on relationships and health education: requirements from 2020.
How your RSE provision can affect judgements
If inspectors find your school is failing to meet its obligations, they'll consider this when reaching their 'personal development' and 'leadership and management' judgements.
See paragraph 319 of the school inspection handbook.
RSE within personal development
Within this judgement, inspectors will look at how your school:
- Ensures that RSE contributes to pupils' personal development
- Develops pupils’ age-appropriate understanding of healthy relationships through appropriate relationships and sex education
- Enables pupils to recognise online and offline risks to their wellbeing, including risks of sexual exploitation, domestic abuse, female genital mutilation and forced marriage – and making them aware of the support available to them
- Addresses sexual harassment, online abuse and sexual violence in its RSE and wider curriculum (see more on this in the final section of this page)
This is explained in paragraph 315 and 316 of the inspection handbook.