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		<title>Consultation on Primary Curriculum and PSHE</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/consultation-on-primary-curriculum-and-pshe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with about 200 others I&#8217;ve spent this morning at a consultation event the QCA have organised around the proposed new primary curriculum, and making PSHE a statutory subject.
The people at the event came from a very diverse set of backgrounds, for example I was sat between someone from the Ordinance Survey and on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2704&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The National Youth Agency on PSHE</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/the-national-youth-agency-on-pshe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 12:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Youth Agency have released the following statement on the Macdonald review:
“We have long supported this move, especially since young people have been telling us for some time that the quality of sex and relationships and drug education they receive can leave a lot to be desired” said NYA Chief Executive Fiona Blacke. “If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2655&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consultation on PSHE and Primary Curriculum</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/consultation-on-pshe-and-primary-curriculum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The QCA have been asked by the secretary of state to undertake the consultations on PSHE becoming statutory and on the new primary curriculum.
PSHE
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Reviews into PSHE education by QCA, Ofsted and others report that the quality of delivery of PSHE education varies between schools and does not always adequately meet the needs of children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2640&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Written Ministerial Statement on PSHE</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/written-ministerial-statement-on-pshe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hansard has published Ed Ball&#8217;s statement on PSHE:
In October 2008, following reviews of sex and relationships education and drugs and alcohol education, I announced that I proposed to give PSHE education statutory status, subject to formal consultation. To prepare for that consultation, I invited Sir Alasdair Macdonald, headteacher of Morpeth secondary school in London, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2622&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NCB on PSHE</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/ncb-on-pshe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fergus Crow, Assistant Director, in the well-being department of NCB says:
&#8220;NCB welcomes Sir Alasdair Macdonald&#8217;s recommendations into how to make PSHE education statutory. For many years, NCB has called for improvements in PSHE education and children and young people have told us many times how optimistic they are about the potential of the subject only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2619&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DEPF response to PSHE Report</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/depf-response-to-pshe-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Hayman, vice-chair of the Drug Education Practitioners Forum has the following to say about Sir Alastair&#8217;s review of PSHE:
&#8220;Today&#8217;s MacDonald review confirms that the government&#8217;s stated intention to make PSHE education a statutory part of the primary and secondary school curriculum is not only desirable, but, crucially, it is also achievable. The Drug Education [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2614&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PSHE Association responds to Sir Alasdair Macdonald&#8217;s review of PSHE</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/pshe-association-responds-to-sir-alasdair-macdonalds-review-of-pshe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PSHE Association have issued the following statement on Sir Alasdair Macdonald&#8217;s review:
This is a huge step towards ensuring that all children and young people can learn to make informed choices about personal, social, health and economic matters as they grow up’ said Sarah Smart, Chief Executive of the PSHE Association.
She went on to say [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2605&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Review of the proposal to make Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education statutory</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/independent-review-of-the-proposal-to-make-personal-social-health-and-economic-pshe-education-statutory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Alasdair Macdonald&#8217;s review looking at making PSHE statutory has now reported.  He says:
The prominence of the subject has in fact grown in recent years, particularly with the increasing focus on the Every Child Matters outcomes and the duty on schools to promote their pupils’ wellbeing, but it has remained non-statutory and therefore its status [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2601&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PSHE education- Putting Policy into Practice &#8211; Conference</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/pshe-education-putting-policy-into-practice-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via email I&#8217;ve had details about the PSHE Association&#8217;s annual meeting.  They say:
The second annual PSHE Association conference will provide an excellent opportunity to explore and develop curriculum practice within PSHE education. Workshops will be experiential and designed to support and improve classroom practice. A range of cross-phase workshop topics will be on offer including [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2440&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can you measure happiness in schools?</title>
		<link>http://drugeducationforum.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/can-you-measure-happiness-in-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cassandra Jardine attacks the well-being agenda for schools and PSHE in particular in the Telegraph:
And yet more hours will be given over to vague lessons of doubtful benefit when PHSE – personal, health and social education – is already creating yawning holes (and I mean yawning) in timetables. Those holes that would be better filled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drugeducationforum.wordpress.com&blog=1167587&post=2400&subd=drugeducationforum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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