Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) in Schools Conference

Jenny has worked in PSHE education for over 25 years. She was Head of PSHE and Citizenship at a large secondary school for 10 years before joining the Association team, initially as Training and Development Lead. She is now the PSHE Association’s Deputy CEO and Director of Education, leading on partnership projects with government departments, local authorities, MATs, charities, and corporate partners, as well as leading the Association’s team of subject specialists. Jenny and her team are the leading national experts in PSHE education, splitting their time between writing teaching resources and guidance, quality assuring materials from others, delivering training, and providing advice and support to members around the world. Jenny has a Post Graduate Certificate in Educational Research and her co-authored book Understanding PSHE education in secondary schools was published in October 2016.

James Roach is CEO of the Inclusive Multi Academy Trust, a four school primary trust in Watford serving over 1,400 pupils who speak 60+ languages and dialects across their communities. With 25+ years in education, James has worked as a classroom teacher, progressed through two headships and now leads a trust built on the principle that ‘happy children and young people learn, happy staff thrive, and happy people build communities’. Under his leadership, the trust became the first MAT nationally to receive Nurture UK’s National Nurturing Schools accreditation and won the 2025 Optimus MAT Excellence, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Award.

James has developed practical approaches to delivering RSHE in highly diverse, multicultural settings where families bring different cultural perspectives and sensitivities. His work focuses on building genuine trust with communities through transparent communication, engagement and creating space for different voices whilst maintaining the trust’s commitment to inclusion and dignity for all children. He speaks regularly on inclusive educational leadership, navigating sensitive conversations with families, and what he calls “digital dignity” – using technology to remove barriers to belonging rather than create new ones.

Rebecca is the Project Development Manager for the NSPCC’S Talk Relationships service for secondary schools. The service supports schools to create a culture of safety, preventing harassment and abuse, through a whole school approach to sex and relationships education.

Before joining the NSPCC, Rebecca has nearly 15 years’ experience of working with children and young people directly in the prevention and recovery of domestic and teenage relationship abuse.

Nicky Waring is the RSE Professional Development Lead at the Sex Education Forum, where she designs and delivers training for educators, foster carers, and other professionals on providing high‑quality, inclusive RSE, with a particular focus on SEND. A qualified teacher, she has worked across mainstream and specialist primary settings, including as a PSHE lead, and has supported autistic learners and those with SEND from early years to adulthood in a variety of educational and community contexts. Prior to joining SEF, she trained as a sexual health educator and founded her own organisation, delivering accessible RSE to young people with SEND and offering training to families and practitioners.

Monica Bhogal, Director of the Schools Consent Project, spent 15 years as a solicitor, specialising in defamation, privacy, reporting restrictions, and pre-publication advice. She is passionate about educating and empowering young people. She believes giving them clear, accurate knowledge and practical skills will enable them to enjoy respectful, fulfilling relationships. When young people understand their legal rights and responsibilities, are confident to communicate their boundaries, and respect others’, we can support the wider, meaningful, cultural change that we are all looking to achieve, not just in our schools but in society as a whole. 

Amy Forbes-Robertson (BA MPhil PGCE QTS) is a qualified teacher (KS3 & KS4), a published author and Founding Director of It Happens Education. Amy is out & about delivering an array of our work in schools to student, parents & teachers.

Amy leads on our consultancy work for programmes, resources and projects with organisations such as Channel 4, BBC Teach, BBC Bitesize, Operation Ouch, The University of Westminster & The University of Surrey.

Amy is delighted to have been asked to contribute to Home Office conversations about reducing Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG). She has also attended Parliamentary events focusing on the role RSHE education plays in preventing harms.

Amy has presented at conferences and events for the likes of HMC, Society of Heads, IAPS, GSA & Westminster Insights. Amy was also a project leader for the Beacons educational project at The Hay Literature Festival. Which is ideal…because she really loves good books.

For over 20 years, Amy has worked in and around education. During this time, Amy has interacted with young people and their parents, carers and teachers; as a volunteer, a community outreach worker, in youth work, as a school governor and also as an accredited trainer for Cambridge Assessment International where she has delivered teacher training both online and in international educational establishments.

In 2015, Amy stepped out of the classroom and joined Alexandra Fryer, delivering RSHE in schools. Since then she has devoted her full-time working career to the subject. Initially as a self-employed independent, then an LLP partner and now as Director of It Happens Education Limited.

Amy is consistently amazed by brilliant young people and their worlds. She is empathic and intrinsically understands the complexity of lives lived between family, friends, home & school-settings. Amy has been closely involved in pastoral care and safeguarding issues. She is familiar with the research & evidence regarding the challenges that young people face as they experiment with their own friendships, relationships and identities in our complex culture. Amy believes that everyone deserves a safe & judgement free space to untangle some of the trickier RSHE topics history has handed us.

Most importantly Amy has a wonderful ability to communicate and connect with young people; she is very hopeful about the next generation, and this is resoundingly clear in all of her work…

She is also a mother of two amazing young people who are currently navigating secondary school.