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Personal safety

Identifying risk and managing personal safety are fundamental to PSHE education – and have greater emphasis in the 2025 RSHE guidance. Our lesson plans will help develop the knowledge, understanding and skills that keep pupils safe from harm.

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Identifying risk and managing personal safety are fundamental to PSHE education. Our lesson plans will develop knowledge, understanding and skills to help keep pupils safe.
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Karen Summers
Subject Specialist

Teaching about personal safety and managing risk

PSHE education helps to keep children and young people safe and manage risk. Our guidance and lesson plans will help you to teach PSHE effectively, while meeting statutory RSHE and inspection requirements. 

The Association really helped me to introduce preventative drugs education to my PSHE curriculum. I see a real difference in my pupils’ understanding of the risks and harms.

PSHE Association member

This is a broad area that crosses all strands of PSHE — from relationships to financial risk.

Our Programme of Study (key stages 1-5) and Curriculum Models  show you how to plan personal safety into a tailored, fully sequenced PSHE education curriculum for your school. This includes teaching pupils how to identify risk and manage personal safety in face to face and online social settings.

Children and young people must also know where to get advice and report concerns about their own or others’ personal safety. to translate the relevant learning opportunities into a tailored, fully sequenced PSHE education curriculum for your school.  

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Training

KS 3-5

Teaching sexual health and contraception – secondary
45 mins School Plus members

Develop your subject knowledge and practical understanding of how to teach about contraception and sexual health at KS3-5.

KS 1-4

Gathering pupil voice for pupils with SEND
10 mins School Plus members

Top tips on how to establish the needs of your pupils with SEND.

KS 3-4

Pornography: What and how to teach
45 mins School Plus members

Learn how to safely and confidently teach about pornography in PSHE, and gain a solid understanding of current research and best practice.

Guidance

Working with external visitors
KS1-5
Ensure external visitors or speakers make a safe and effective contribution to your school's PSHE programme, in line with the 2025 RSHE statutory guidance.
Choosing PSHE education resources
KS1-5
15 top tips to help you choose PSHE education resources to use in the classroom.
Assessment
KS1-4
Gauge what's been learned, demonstrate impact and increase motivation.
Handling complex issues and creating a safe learning environment
KS1-5
Guidance and top tips on setting ground rules and distancing learning in PSHE education.
Writing your PSHE education policy
KS1-4
Everything you need to develop an effective whole school policy.
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Evidence and research

Key principles of effective prevention education
Published: October 4, 2021
KS1-5
An evidence review of good practice in prevention education, produced by the PSHE Association on behalf of CEOP.
Gambling education - current practice and future directions
Published: October 4, 2021
KS1-5
This theory and evidence paper from Dr Elly Hanson takes a 'wide-lens' approach to the issue of gambling and gambling education.