Public Health England published encouraging figures in September: new HIV diagnoses in the UK are at their lowest level since 2000 and, in 2018, 94% of UK people living with diagnosed HIV and on antiretroviral treatment had an undetectable viral load - so could not pass on HIV.
These figures are a testament to the quality of HIV care and treatment in the UK, but there are a number of challenges that risk the progress which has been made.
Sometimes we are asked how someone can start a career in relationships and sex education - and the truth is there is more than one route to working in the field.
Whatever route people end up taking into RSE, acet UK firmly believes that all young people deserve high quality - and accurate - relationships and sex education, from educators who have been specifically trained to cover the topic.
As well as requesting feedback from young people after every session, the Southwark Esteem team recently ran a focus group with Year 10 students, who have been receiving Esteem sessions each year since they started secondary school.
The results will help us understand the long-term impact of Esteem sessions on young people; identify what has worked well; and inform how we can develop our relationships and sex education programme in the future.
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Our parents' workshops are designed to equip parents and carers to talk with their families about relationships and sex confidently, in a positive and age appropriate way.
During the workshops, we:
The Department of Education's new guidance on relationships education, relationships and sex education, and health education is scheduled to be finalised and with schools by September 2019. It will then become statutory in September 2020.
Complete this 6 question quiz to share your opinions about what you think your child should be learning, when they should be learning it, and how you want to be involved - and find out what the draft guidance says.
This zipped folder contains a variety of resources to help Esteem educators create their own useful relationship and sex education physical resources. This version includes
Our work with parents is an area that is growing. We have been asked to run a number of workshops over the past academic year, in partnership with churches, schools and a pregnancy crisis centre.
Alongside exploring topics such as child development and the teenage brain, the workshops also discuss the prevalence of social media use amongst young people, highlighting some of the messages about relationships and sex they may encounter online.
The Children and Social Work Act 2017 required the Secretary of State for Education to make the subjects of Relationships Education at primary and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) at secondary compulsory through regulations.