Health Education: Training

(asked on 16th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers have accessed training as part of the £6 million in funding allocated to implementation support for Relationships and sex education and health education in financial year 2019-20; and how many hours of training in that subject those teachers have received.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 24th March 2021

The Department is committed to supporting schools to deliver high quality teaching of Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. We anticipate spending up to £2.4 million in this financial year to develop a programme of support for schools. Further funding beyond this financial year is to be confirmed.

The Department has published training materials to help teachers to build their subject knowledge, increase their confidence and the quality of their teaching practice. Thirteen training modules and one further module to support pupils with special educational needs and disability are now published on GOV.UK. These can be freely accessed and downloaded via the following link: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-about-relationships-sex-and-health. The Department is also grant funding 20 Teaching Schools, covering all eight Regional School Commissioner regions, to deliver a Train the Trainer / Peer Support cascade training programme to schools in their regions. The training support can be accessed here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/teaching-about-relationships-sex-and-health#training-support-for-schools.

The Department’s training materials and programme of training and support are designed to support schools to train other teachers within their own settings. We are unable to confirm the total number of teachers that have accessed the training or how many hours of training have been received. As a broad indication of the take-up so far, our modules have been downloaded 35,536 times in the past 12 months and we anticipate that by the end of March 2021, around 3,500 schools will have accessed the Train the Trainer / Peer Support training, which they are then expected to cascade within their own schools.

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