PSHE education has significant potential to boost pupils’ life chances.
It can also reduce barriers to learning for the most disadvantaged pupils by helping them learn about the world of work in a way their more advantaged peers might access through their independent schooling, or friend and family networks.
This paper sets out these benefits in more detail and explores how statutory status for PSHE education could help to realise the huge potential of the subject to deliver these outcomes for the most disadvantaged pupils: