Linked Guidance
Education Providers
We have collated key documents that PSHE Leads should have an awareness of.
These documents either relate directly to the PSHE curriculum or are supporting documents as part of a whole school approach
- Statutory RSHE Guidance (current)
- Statutory RSHE Guidance (2025 - for introduction from September 2026)
- Keeping Children Safe in Education
- Working Together to Safeguard Children
- Prevent Duty Guidance
- Equality Act 2010 and Schools
- Teaching Online Safety in Schools
- Relationships, Sex and Health Education - Implementation of the 2020 curriculum guidance in schools
- Teaching Relationship Education to Prevent Sexual Abuse
- SEND Code of Practice
- Protective Security and Preparedness for Education Settings
- DfE and ACPO drug advice for school
- Preventing youth violence and gang involvement
- Promoting fundamental British values as part of SMSC in maintained schools
- SMSC Requirements for Independent Schools on how they should support pupil's spiritual, moral, social and cultural development
- DfE Sharing Nudes and Semi Nudes Guidance
- Road injury prevention: resources to support schools
- KS1-2: PSHE What it Covers and Why it Works
- KS3-4: PSHE: What it Covers and Why it Works
- PSHE: A Mapping Study of the Prevelant Models of Delivery and their Effectiveness
- OFSTED Inspection Framework
- Independent Schools Inspectorate Handbook
- OFSTED -Personal development Subject curriculum insights for primary and secondary teachers and leaders
- A Period Positive National Curriculum
- Guidance and Support for Menstruation in Schools
- Anti-Bullying Alliance Banter or Bullying? Toolkit
- Education, Children and Violence
- Embracing Difference, Ending Bullying, Research and Impact Report
- Everyone's Safer: Supporting Effective Leadership Responses to HSB in Schools
- Financial Education Guidance for Primary Schools
- Financial Education Guidance for Secondary Schools
- We're in this Together - Reframing Masculinity for Young Men and Boys
- Police in the Classroom
- Promoting Children and Young People's Mental Health and Wellbeing
- When to Call the Police - Guidance for Schools and Colleges
- Young People and Stopping Vaping
- Young People and Stopping Smoking
- What Works in Schools and Colleges to Increase Physical Activity
- School Food Standards: Resources for Schools
- National Curriculum in England: Citizenship
- National Curriculum in England: Religious Education
- National Curriculum in England: Computing
- National Curriculum in England: Science
- National Curriculum in England: Physical Education
- Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework
- Behaviour in School
- Alternative Provision (Statutory Guidance)
- Non-School Alternative Provision (Voluntary National Standards)
- Mental Health and Behaviour in Schools (Advice for Schools)
- Promoting Children and Young People's Emotional Health and Wellbeing (Guidance for Schools and Colleges)
- Domestic Abuse Statutory Guidance
- Preventing and Tackling Bullying
- The Equality and Human Rights Commission Advice and Guidance (provides advice on avoiding discrimination in a variety of educational context)
- PSHE Association - Online Misogyny and the Manosphere
- PSHE Association - Talking to pupils about distressing events