Technical report: Review of relationships and sexuality education

Relationships and sexuality education (RSE) is required to be taught in all state and state-integrated schools. RSE is important to children and young people’s physical and mental health, and their safety. However, there are differing views on what, when, and how much should be taught in schools, with a particular focus on sensitive RSE topics.

This technical report describes what we did to understand how well RSE is currently taught and how well it meets the needs of students, expectations of parents, and capabilities of schools.

This technical report is divided into 10 chapters:

Chapter 1 describes the evaluation design

Chapter 2 describes the analytical tools which includes the sources of data collected and used in this report and how the data was analysed 

Chapter 3 set out the context of what RSE is and how it works

Chapter 4 describes whether there is support for RSE being taught

Chapter 5 describes what students are being taught in RSE

Chapter 6 describes whether RSE is meeting students’ needs

Chapter 7 looks at whether it is meeting the expectations of parents and whānau

Chapter 8 describes whether RSE is manageable for schools

Chapter 9 shares our key findings and areas for action

Chapter 10 discusses the limitations of this report including the scope, data collection and analysis

Chapters 1 to 10 are together in a PDF file. To download the technical report, click here: Technical report: Lets talk about it