According to the National Education Union (NEU) and NSPCC's survey of 2,175 school leaders and teachers, over a quarter of teachers do not think their school will be ready to deliver the lessons, which will be a mandatory part of the curriculum from September 2020.
Competing workloads and the cost of, and difficulty in finding, high-quality training were mentioned as the biggest barriers to delivering the lessons.
The survey was carried out by the union and children’s charity in May.
Three quarters of teachers (78 per cent) said face-to-face training would boost their confidence to deliver high-quality relationships and sex education (RSE) lessons. A similar number of survey respondents said that more funding for staff training would ensure schools were ready.
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