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Beyond media literacy: What girls taught us about supporting young people online
Co-authored by Reimaging RSE founder, Emily Setty, and principal investigator on the Influencer Culture project, Robyn Muir. Find out more about Robyn and follow her on LinkedIn. Over the past year, Emily and Robyn, alongside co-author Rosie Macpherson,...
KCSIE 2026: From compliance to culture? What the new guidance means for preventing harmful sexual behaviour
The publication of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) 2026 will inevitably prompt schools to review policies, update procedures and familiarise staff with the latest statutory expectations. These practical changes are of course important and necessary. Clear...
Strangulation, choking and RSE: Why simple answers may not be enough
A push to address conversations about strangulation and choking in sexual relationships have become increasingly prominent in recent years. Media reporting, practitioner concerns, policy debates and emerging research have all drawn attention to what many perceive as a...
Beyond the ban: Supporting young people in a changing digital landscape
A practical briefing for schools, parents, youth organisations and policymakers Introduction The UK Government has announced plans to introduce new restrictions on children's access to social media as part of wider efforts to improve online safety. These proposals...
The social media ban is coming. What happens next?
The UK Government's announcement that it intends to introduce restrictions on children's access to social media marks a significant moment in the evolution of online safety policy. For many parents, educators and practitioners, it will be welcomed as a long-overdue...
Beyond compliance: What schools taught us about safeguarding, trust and harmful sexual behaviour
Following the Everyone’s Invited testimonies and Ofsted’s 2021 review, schools in England have found themselves under growing pressure to respond to harmful sexual behaviour (HSB) among young people. In many ways, this pressure is understandable. Schools are one of...
Rethinking Scenarios Through Safe Uncertainty
This blog is written by one of our Reimagining RSE trailblazers, a group of educators and practitioners working with us to explore what a safe uncertainty approach looks like in practice. Across different settings, they are testing, adapting and reflecting on ways of...
Beyond the culture wars: Why Safe Uncertainty offers a way forward for RSE
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) has become a battleground for the most contested area of education policy. Across many countries, debates about what should be taught, when and how have intensified. At the centre of these debates lie competing claims about how to...
“Kindness should not translate as weakness” – reflections on a workshop series with teenage boys by Tash Loshak
Read on Substack We are pleased to share this reflection by an educator and one of our Reimagining RSE trailblazers. In the post, published on her Substack, Tasha reflects on her work facilitating discussions with boys about relationships, gender expectations and...
I research the harm that can come to teenagers on social media. I don’t support a ban
The UK government has launched a consultation on introducing an Australian-style ban on social media for under-16s. The proposal is framed as a bold response to rising concerns about young people’s mental health, online abuse and exposure to harmful content. At first...
Proposals to ban teenagers from social media won’t solve harms, but the discussion has revealed something important
When I wrote recently in The Conversation about proposals to ban teenagers from social media, I did not anticipate the scale or seriousness of the response. The article has since been cited in a House of Commons Research Briefing, and I’ve received thoughtful...
Learning together: Reflections from our fourth Reimagining RSE trailblazer meeting
Last week, we were delighted to bring together our Trailblazer community for our fourth meeting, held on Thursday 29 January 2026. As ever, the conversation was thoughtful, generous and grounded in practice. These meetings continue to play a vital role in shaping how...
Asking different questions: Safe Uncertainty in practice
Much Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) is still shaped by what we describe as safe certainty: an understandable but limiting impulse to manage young people’s relationships through fixed rules, simplified messages and tightly bounded discussions focused primarily...
Do we need a new law to deal with AI generated sexual images?
Louisa Street, School of Law, Keele University, United Kingdom, louisa.a.street@outlook.com Louisa Street is a youth worker and PhD candidate with over 15 years’ experience working with young people on a range of issues including sex and relationships, drugs and...
Dynamics of sexual consent: Sex, rape and the grey area in-between
This in-depth, thoughtful guest piece by Lena Gunnarsson explores how consent unfolds in the relational, affective and ambiguous terrain of real sexual encounters. Her analysis resonates strongly with the Safe Uncertainty framework, which argues that relationships and...