It is VERY, VERY important that school leaders, teachers, TAs, and governors accept that teaching Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) to children, young people and adults with severe learning disabilities (SLD) will be very, very different to teaching RSE to neuro-typical conventionally developing learners. Equals contends that it is not possible to take standard curriculum models, such as those proposed by the Sex Education Forum and the DfE and apply them wholesale to those with SLD however much they might be differentiated.
This is a two-part session – the 2nd part will run on Thursday 8th October 2026
