27 October 2023: Healthy Respect – NHS partners who provide training on relationships, sexual health and parenthood (RSHP) – are setting up a new parental engagement project looking to find out what parents and carers want and need to support their child’s learning around RSHP.

A coalition of NHS Boards commissioned independent research to explore with parents and carers a number of themes, including:

• How they support their child’s learning at home in terms of RSHP topics
• What they know and think about the RSHP learning going on at school
• How they want home and school to work together (so that children and young people get the best learning experiences)
• What would help parents and carers at home in their role as their child’s teacher on all these matters.

The new project that has been developed from this is called The Chat:

There are a number of ways that parents/carers can get involved. The first opportunity is to be part of a group conversation about this area of learning. Please see the Chat website for more information.