Bloom-ED is the national peak advocacy body committed to ensuring evidence-based Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) is offered to all young people in their homes, schools and communities. Effective RSE has many positive outcomes that result in healthier hearts, minds, bodies and people. 

 

We are a collective of teachers, researchers, sexologists, students, parents and activists who operate as an alliance - in conjunction with other organisations - to advocate for comprehensive RSE.

 

At the current time our focus is on improving RSE delivery in Australia.

 

Internationally, and throughout Australia, evidence clearly demonstrates the benefits of RSE that is contemporary, relevant, comprehensive and engaging. Some of this evidence can be found here. We advocate for RSE that goes beyond one-off, lecture-style formats that focus on risk and harm prevention.

 

To improve RSE in Australia, we need to focus our efforts on:

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• supporting families and adults to feel comfortable and better equipped to speak to young people about relationships and sexuality,

• ensuring minimum standards regarding RSE in schools so that all students across the country receive a consistent education and that school practices align with best-practice principles,

• making certain that every teacher training organisation ensures their student teachers have a basic understanding of RSE and that more detailed support is offered to classroom teachers delivering RSE,

• improving access to regular and ongoing RSE professional development opportunities for qualified teachers,

• increasing funding and attention to develop and deliver appropriate RSE for diverse communities. 

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Striving for more comprehensive RSE in Australia will align our approach with countries such as Canada, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.