Gareth and Rachel recently ran an online CPD workshop for members of the Esteem network, and the Esteem team are offering twilight workshops to primary and secondary schools to help them navigate the 2025 changes to the RSHE guidance and plan for its implementation in 2026/27.
This is in addition to other CPD workshops run for members this year, and other twilight workshops available for schools which provide deeper dives into trickier topics such as naked picture sharing, and dismantling sex myths created by porn and other media.
We are also constantly reviewing our resources for network members and developing new ones, for instance, those around pornography and naked picture sharing, to take account of things like AI and deep fakes, so we can support older young people in critically challenging content that they come across.
In the autumn term, we hope to release pelvic health materials to our members which we have been developing for the last couple of years with sixth formers. This resource covers pelvic health matters that are not STI or pregnancy related.
We will also continue to release new primary Relationships Education resources that we have been piloting.
In the medium term, we aim to explore influencer culture as a way of attacking some of the issues around online misinformation. We will also think about refreshing our resources around consent and healthy relationships, to review how we teach about the law and address sexism.
Our Esteem network of RSE educators (those who have been trained by us and choose to stay as part of our network so they can be resourced and supported by acet UK) reached over 66,000 young people in the 2024/2025 school year.
This is in addition to the 7,638 students reached by our own Esteem team!
The network currently has educators across the UK, as well as in Turkey, India, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Austria and South Africa.