Behaviour change - through Buddhist Meditation

A powerful example of how Vipasana was used in prison to bring about behaviour change. This has applications for all health professionals and others looking for a way to bring about changes.

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Sex and Relationships Education Week on Teachers TV

This week is Sex and Relationships EducationWeek on Teachers TV, so teachers will have the opportunity to see many programmes and share ideas in a really concentrated way. Content will be repeated throughout the week and is available in a timetable here.

To help teachers to find useful resources easily Contraception Education has created a quick to access summary page of 4 excellent programmes which focus on different aspects of SRE - Special Needs, Tackling STI's, Sexuality and Challenging Sterotypes at http://www.contraceptioneducation.co.uk/sdays.asp?news_id=469

Connexions Safe Sex Quiz

For a great new quiz about safe sex have a look at this on the Connexions website.  It has 5 simple questions, true or false answers, giving some very clear infomration about UK legal age of consent, condom availability, emergeincy contraception and the myth that girls can't get pregnant when menstruating.  What do you think?

QCA Sex and Relationships Education Units

QCA Sex Education Units of Work and useful websites are available here

Contraception Education's visit to China

To find out all about our recent trip to China please visit this page and to follow press coverage please click here

Compulsory PSHE, maybe?

Schools Minister announces statutory PSHE


DCSF has published the report by the group that was established
to review the delivery of Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) in
schools; and the Government response to the group's report.

The review was announced in the Children's Plan, in December 2007. The
steering group that undertook the review comprised practitioners
involved in the planning and delivery of SRE; experts in young people's
sexual health; representatives of faith groups; and young people. The
review was co-chaired by Schools Minister Jim Knight, Jackie Fisher,
Principal of Newcastle College and Josh McTaggart, a member of the UK
Youth Parliament. The group's independent report includes a number of
recommendations to Government, designed to improve the quality and
consistency of SRE in schools, to which the Government has responded.

The steering group's headline recommendation is that PSHE should be made statutory and be supported by a statutory programme of study (PoS) - in order to give it increased status/priority in schools.

The Government has accepted the arguments for statutory PSHE and agreed to undertake a
review headed by Sir Alasdair MacDonald to consider how to turn the decision that PSHE should have statutory status into a practicable way forward.

In addition, the Government will accept, or agree to consider further, all
of the steering group's other recommendations, designed to improve the
delivery of SRE. Recommendations broadly fall into 6 headings:

Those designed to improve the skills and confidence of those who deliver SRE - the key delivery challenge;

Those designed to encourage greater use of external professionals and agencies to support schools' delivery of SRE;

Those that address the need for more guidance and support on how best to deliver SRE;

Those designed to increase young people's opportunities to influence the design of their SRE programmes;

Those aimed at maximising the impact of wider Government programmes on the quality and consistency of SRE; and

Those designed to improve leadership on SRE, in terms of both school leadership teams and strategic oversight by Local Authorities and PCTs.

The report also considered how best to ensure that schools and parents could work in partnership to educate children and young people about sex and relationships.