PSHE guidance & info

Framework for Economic Wellbeing 11-19: career, work-related learning and enterprise (June 2008)

QCA have published a revised framework, which takes account of developments such as the new secondary curriculum, the 14-19 reform programme and the government's strategy for enterprise and education. The framework covers the full 11-19 age range and provides a context for schools to fulfil their legal responsibility to provide opportunities for careers education at key stage 3 and for careers and work at key stage 4. It can be downloaded from the QCA website: http://www.qca.org.uk/qca_17872.aspx

PSHE new programmes of study-September 2007

Economic wellbeing & financial capability KS3 & KS4
Personal wellbeing KS3 & KS4

PSHE non statutory frameworks

PSHE KS4
PSHE KS3
PSHE KS2
PSHE KS1

Other useful documents / sources of information

PSHE at Key Stages 1-4 Guidance on assessment, recording and reporting ( QCA)  [pdf 65.7kb]

PSHE Units of work, Sex and relationships education, healthy lifestyles & financial capability.
Key stages 1-4 (QCA) [pdf 294kb]

Every Child Matters-at the heart of the curriculum
The place of ECM as a fundamental part of the curriculum

Every Child Matters
Very useful website with guidance and information for practitioners, parents and young people

PSHE guidance from Healthy Schools
Personal, Social and Health Education Prompts including sex and relationship education (SRE) and drug education (including alcohol, tobacco and volatile substance abuse)

Positive Guidance on Aspects of Personal, Social and Health Education- available from the NCB
Stephen De Silva and Simon Blake

NICE guidance -Promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing in primary education [pdf]  March 2008

PSHE and Citizenship Information service (NCB) provides details of current resources


National Healthy Schools status- a guide for schools [pdf 1.46mb]

National Healthy Schools programme
A long term initiative that helps young people and their schools to be healthy.

Youth Matters Green Paper ( DCSF)

Healthy Living Blueprint (DCSF [pdf 741kb]

See also Primary and Secondary information