Education: Schools’ Training

  “Gender Questioning Children” is now embedded within Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026, making it part of the statutory safeguarding framework for schools and colleges in England. Rather than being a standalone guidance document it introduces new safeguarding expectations covering support for gender-questioning children, social transition, parental involvement, single-sex spaces and sports. It requires schools to make individual, evidence-based decisions in line with their safeguarding duties

Talk to us about designing a bespoke programme of CPD for your school, college or academy: prioritising its individual needs and requirements inside the required legal framework. 

LGBT+ inclusive Relationship & Sex Education

Delivering Relationship & Sex Education in a way that is inclusive of LGBT+ issues is a vital step towards making a school, academy or college a respectful and legally compliant environment.

How could EACH help your school, academy or college?

We create and convene courses tailored to primary, secondary and tertiary settings which prepare participants to deliver the curriculum in a way that acknowledges LGBT+ identities.

Participants leave our sessions:

• Confident to use the relevant and appropriate terms to describe sexual orientation and gender identity
• Prepared to meet new statutory requirements and equalities duties
• Knowledgeable of safeguarding matters and feeling equipped for Ofsted and other inspections
• Self-assured to make an informed decision about resources to support teaching on sexual orientation or gender identity
• Ready to update existing materials, policies and approaches within your setting in line with safeguarding or RSE expectations
• Well-equipped to respond to enquiries from pupils, parents, colleagues, governors, trustees and the wider community.

EACH believes that children should be taught:

• to form opinions about others based on whether they are kind, respectful, trustworthy and responsible rather than judging them on appearance, aspects of difference or unsubstantiated judgements
• about acceptance, empathy, prejudice, discrimination plus the rights and responsibilities they have as UK and global citizens
• how to access help if they are involved in a bullying or abusive situation

Why is LGBT+ informed RSE important?

RSE is about alleviating stereotyping, accepting and respecting people and celebrating difference rather than denigrating it. All children and all family compositions, as well as school or college staff, deserve respect and recognition. Understanding and using appropriate terminology in an age-appropriate way is vital to equip children for life in the UK today and in their futures..

No child should ever be made to feel less accepted or that their family is any less loving and caring than another. There are many diverse family situations; some children will have parents who are separated, some may live with a mother and father, others may have stepparents, some may live in extended multi-generational families. Others may be fostered or adopted or have other family arrangements. Some of those in parenting roles will be heterosexual and some will be LGBT+.  It is essential that RSE reflects a wide range of families in its images and content so these resonate with every child or young person in your class.

Some children may feel that they do not fit in or that they are in some way different. These children can feel isolated, vulnerable and less able to apply themselves to learning. This difference may be about their developing sexuality or gender identity but equally it may be about appearance, body-image, achievements, language, speech or any number of perceived differences. Cultivating compassion for self and others is central to the learning outcomes of RSE.