#compulsory pshe

For those who don’t know, PSHE is compulsory. Now. Personal, social, health and economic education. Life skills. It’s been compulsory in schools since September 2020. Schools that are not teaching PSHE currently are expected to be doing so by the start of the summer term 2021 From the government website, “Relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education: The new curriculum will be…

Warning! Don't eat this food! Time to act on health education http://wp.me/p1YZsx-2bc

Professor John Ashton of the Faculty of Public Health was on BBC Radio 4’s World at One today speaking about children’s health. One of our major food manufacturers has seen a need to put a warning label on a range of its products which says, “Not to be eaten more than once a week”. We’re a society whose food products are so bad for health they have to carry warnings. In this particular case, on…