Promoting Pupil Wellbeing and SRE

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Promoting Pupil Well-being and SRE

• Sue Holley
• Pupil Well-being, Health Safety Unit, DCSF

Sex Education Forum 6 March 2008
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Pupil Well-being Be Healthy Stay Safe Enjoy
Achieve Make a Positive Contribution Achieve
Economic Well-being
Everyone!
Duty to promote pupil well-being
Be Healthy
Stay Safe
Home OfficeHealth Safety Executive
School Safety - guns/knives/intruders -
premises - school trips/visits - safety education
School Food - improve quality - increase demand -
provide capacity
Young People at Risk DivisionCapital
BuildingsCurriculum Unit
Young People at Risk Division
SRE/Drugs/Alcohol Education
All DCSF Policy DirectoratesFinance
Emergency Planning - flu/floods/contingency
planning
Department of HealthHome Office
Healthy Schools
Sex Education ForumDrugs Education Forum
Most other OGDsDIUSCabinet OfficeHealth
Protection Agency
Managing Medicines
School Day/Year
Department of Health
Department of Health
PE School SportCurriculum UnitImproving
Behaviour Attendance Unit
Association of CollegesHealth Protection Agency
Safeguarding Unit
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A new duty.

• Education and Inspection Act, 2006, S38
• From September 2007The governing body of a
  maintained school shall, in discharging their
  functions relating to the conduct of the school
  promote the well-being of pupils at the school
• Alongside similar duty to promote community
  cohesion
• Existing Ofsted duty (since 2005) to report on
  schools contribution to pupil well-being

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.focusing schools on ECM

• Focus defined by Children Act, 2004 (S10)
• physical and mental health and emotional
  well-being
• protection from harm and neglect
• education, training and recreation
• the contribution made by them to society
• social and economic well-being.

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In other words.

• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

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What do Ministers want schools to do? (1)

• Role of the school is one of the dimensions of
  the Childrens Plan.
• Will issue guidance on duty to promote pupil
  well-being
• Will develop strong indicators for all ECM
  outcomes at school level
• Will review Sex and Relationships education
• Will review drugs education, including alcohol

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Next Steps

• Consultation on guidance April 2008
• School level indicators on well-being piloted by
  Ofsted from April 2008
• Resource pack for schools on promoting well-being
  Autumn 2008
• Review of SRE conclusions Summer/Autumn 2008
• Review of Drugs Education conclusions Summer 2008

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Review of SRE

• Childrens Plan gives a commitment to review best
  practice in effective SRE and how it is delivered
  in schools.
• Also commits to involve young people fully in the
  review to make sure that future SRE better meets
  their needs.

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Review of SRE

• Review undertaken by an Expert Group chaired by
  Jim Knight
• Co-chairs are Jackie Fisher, Principal of
  Newcastle FE College, and Joshua McTaggart, UK
  Youth Parliament
• First meeting, 3 March
• Report back in the Summer/Autumn

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Review of SRE

• Terms of Reference are
• To review existing evidence on the quality of SRE
  from a range of perspectives, such as OfSTED,
  user perception surveys etc, and commission
  additional evidence if necessary to inform
  decisions, for example on the views of parents.
• To consider options for improving SRE delivery,
  taking account of resource implications and
  schools capacity to deliver
• To make recommendations to Government on what
  actions should be taken to drive improvement in
  SRE delivery to a consistent standard in all
  schools.