School leaders on Thursday insisted that PSHE lessons are vital for pupils and help them withstand the pressures of modern society - amid controversy on the teaching of topics such as gender identity.

A group of students are having an app developed to help break down the barriers around mental health for young people. It ...

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PSHE lessons in schools are like the “Wild West” and are used to teach contested ideologies, an MP has claimed. Speaking at a meeting of the education select committee held to examine children’s ...

A primary school said it would focus more on pupils' mental health during its PSHE lessons due to concerns that children had growing emotional needs, especially after the Covid pandemic. East Hunsbury ...

TOO many schools are failing to teach sex education and other "vital" issues teenagers need to understand for later life, Ofsted said today. The education watchdog condemned some secondary schools for ...

Safer Internet Day 2023 was co-ordinated in the UK by the UK Safer Internet Centre in partnership with Childnet and the theme ...

Schoolchildren across Britain may be offered sleep lessons to help tackle the problem of insomnia among young people. The lessons became available to teachers at the end of last year and was devised ...