ASDAN
The Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network is an educational charity, the purpose of which is to promote the personal and social development of learners to enhance their self-esteem, their aspirations and their contribution to their community. It is an approved awarding body which offers a range of PSHE and Citizenship education resources for use at Key Stages 2, 3 and 4.

Children's Society
The Children’s Society works with and for children and young people through a network of local projects, training and consultancy, campaigning and research. Resources are targeted on four priority areas of work: children in trouble with the law, children at risk on the streets, young refugees, and disabled children. The Children’s Society has published education packs on citizenship and parenthood, and research into school exclusions which are available from their website.

ContinYou
ContinYou aims to widen opportunities for learning, promote community based learning and provide models of development through local projects, resources and research, conferences, seminars and training progammes. It promotes learning as a vehicle for social inclusion and fosters home-school links. Areas of work include: Children, families and young people, with an emphasis on parenting, Citizenship, Extended services in and around schools, and Extra Time – study support. ContinYou runs the Active Citizens in Schools programme (ACiS), an award scheme that supports schools to address the citizenship curriculum through real-life opportunities.

Contraception Education
Contraception Education develops and provides sex & relationships education resources, study days and workshops. It focuses on relationship education, safe sex, preventing unintended pregnancy, and preventing sexually transmitted infections. It aims to help young people make positive choices in their relationships, based on sound factual information and confidence/esteem building principles. Resources include a board game and a computer game around contraception.

Curriculum Online
Government database of digital learning resources, managed by Becta, for use across the curriculum, to buy with eLCs (eLearning Credits). It covers Citizenship and PSHE and can be searched by keyword, Key Stages, units to cover, and type of resources.

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF)
One of three new government departments set up in June 2007, replacing the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and the Department for Trade and Industry(DTI). The DCSF is responsible for improving the focus on all aspects of policy affecting children and young people, as part of the Government’s aim to deliver educational excellence. The website includes news, general information, publications, and links to other relevant sites. It is currently at the old DfES domain name and is under redevelopment to reflect recent changes.

Family Planning Association (fpa)
The fpa aims to enable people in the UK to make informed choices about sex and to enjoy sexual health, working to influence service providers, campaigning for and advocating inclusive life-long sex and relationships education. It runs a helpline, a library and information service, a training and consultancy service, including courses for teachers providing SRE in schools. It also publishes a range of resources, including SRE resources for teachers, parents and children, and runs projects in the local communitry and with professionals, improving good practice and access to services.

Healthy Schools
The website of the National Healthy Schools programme. The programme supports the link between health, behaviour and achievement, it aims to create healthy, happy children and young people who do better in learning and in life. The impact of the programme is based on a whole-school approach to physical and emotional well-being focused on four core themes: PSHE, Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Emotional Health & Wellbeing.

L8R
An interactive drama on TV, DVD and the web, used by 12-17 year olds in schools, PRUs, youth projects, groups, and other settings accross the UK. It allows users to influence the lives of six characters as they deal with everything teenage life can throw at them, including first-time sex, relationships, pregnancy and parenthood. Its learning themes are closely linked to PSHE, Citizenship, English and Drama, and mirror key elements of the Youth Service Curriculum Guidance.

National Academy for Parenting Practitioners (NAPP)
NAPP works to transform the quality and size of the parenting workforce across England so that parents can get the help they need to raise their children well. Work focuses on four main areas: research, training, knowledge exchange and parenting policies. They aim to: build on existing knowledge of what works best by carrying out research into parenting practices; to provide training to increase the size and skill level of the parenting workforce, so that all parents have access to quality support from trained practitioners, based on evidence of what works best; to be a hub for the exchange of ideas and learning; to apply evidence from their research, evaluations and practitioners' direct experiences in order to influence parenting policies.

National Children's Bureau (NCB)
The NCB works to identify and promote the well-being and interests of all children and young people across every aspect of their lives. It encourages professionals and policymakers to see the needs of the whole child and emphasises the importance of multidisciplinary, cross-agency partnerships. It aims to undertake high quality research, play an active role in policy development and advocacy at both central and local levels of government, disseminate information and ensure the views of children and young people are taken into account. The NCB also runs a PSHE and Citizenship Information Service. The website has News, Conferences & training, Resources, Key documents, and Links. It includes information about the NCB Spotlight series of PSHE resources and Teacher training briefings on Meeting the Standard in PSHE. See also the Sex Education Forum entry below.

National Curriculum Online
The Government's curriculum site for teachers, linking every national curriculum programme of study to relevant teaching resources. It includes ways to find teaching opportunities for PSHE across the curriculum and links to the Key Stages Guidelines.

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
NICE is an independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the promotion of good health and the prevention and treatment of ill health. The website has free downloads of publications relating to standards and certification for teaching PSHE.

Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA)
QCA is a guardian of standards in education and training, working with others to maintain and develop the school curriculum and associated assessments, and to accredit and monitor qualifications in schools, colleges and work. QCA has produced guidance on PSHE that establishes a national standard to help teachers and pupils set high expectations and assess pupil progress and attainment. The guidance can be downloaded from the website.

Relate
Relate is the UK's largest and most experienced relationship counselling organisation. It is concerned with all kinds of relationships and it is founded on the belief that relationship skills can and should be learnt. Relate is committed to helping young people develop skills that will enable them to build good foundations for future relationships. They run courses on self-esteem, coping with bullying, sex and sexuality and first relationships, and work directly with young people, in schools, community groups, exclusion units and young offenders' Institutions. They also offer training for teachers, youth workers and others who work with young people in skills that can help them and those they work with to explore how to develop and sustain healthy relationships.

School of Emotional Literacy
The School of Emotional Literacy aims to support and train all the adults, professional and personal, who live and work with children in a variety of methods, models and practices which will ensure that all children receive a sound grounding in emotional literacy; that is being able to recognise, understand, express and manage their own emotions and those of others successfully. They offer a varied, practical range of in-service days and Continuing Professional Development courses to support this. They also publish a range of resources and offer a consultancy service.

Sex Education Forum
Run under the aegis of the National Children's Bureau (NCB), the Sex Education Forum is the national authority on sex and relationships education (SRE). The Forum believes that good quality SRE is an entitlement for all children and young people and is working with its 48 members -religious, children's, parent, governors, health and education organisations - towards this end. From the website you can download factsheets and other resources, find details of projects, read answers to frequently asked questions and follow links to other relevant websites, guidance documents and research reports.

Sheffield Centre for HIV & Sexual Health
A Sheffield based service that operates at a local and national level. Works towards sexual health for all and specifically, reducing unintended teenage pregnancies, preventing HIV and other sexually trainsmitted infections, the promotion of positive and mutually satisfying relationships and the provision of excellent Sex and Relationships Education (SRE). They run training courses for professionals that aim to promote self-esteem and sexual health in young people as well as specific training in SRE in primary schools and secondary schools. They publish a range of relevant resources.

Straight Talking Peer Education
The charity recruits, trains and employs teenage parents to deliver interactive courses in schools presenting the realities of pregnancy and parenting. Straight Talking aims both to give pupils an educated choice as to the time to become a parent and works to enable teenage parents to reach their potential. A recent audit showed that 95% of teenage parents employed by the charity were accessing education, employment and training. The charity has local schemes around the UK and works in partnership with the Teenage Pregnancy Team in Barking & Dagenham where the rates have reduced by over 12%.

Teachernet
This website has a PSHE section offering general information and news; access to a comprehensive resources database; a training database, where practitioners can also add their courses; a professional development tool; a section on PSHE certification, and case studies, including Holding the baby and Teenage pregnancy issues for boys. It is aimed at teachers of PSHE Key Stages 1-4 and of Citizenship Key Stages 1 and 2.

teachers.tv
The digital TV channel for teachers, a free resource for everyone who works in schools. Teachers can view and download programmes that take you inside classrooms and schools across the country to see how good teachers are bringing the curriculum to life and improving schools. It is searchable by Key Stages or subject, including PSHE and Sex and Relationships Education, and Citizenship.

Teacher Resource Exchange (TRE)
The TRE is a moderated database of resources and activities created by teachers. All resources on the TRE are checked by subject specialists to ensure they are of the highest possible quality. Resources are free to use and you can also add your own resources to share with other teachers. You can search by subject and age range.

Trust for the Study of Adolescence (TSA)
TSA focuses exclusively on work with teenagers and young adults. It aims to help close knowledge and skills gaps tand influence policy-makers, service provders and public opinion through research, training, practice development projects, resources and information dissemination. Its work currently focuses on health and emotional well-being, learning and education, parenting and family life, participation and social action and youth justice.

Working with Men
Develops projects, initiatives and campaigns to benefit and support the development of boys, young men, adult men and fathers. It offers training and consultancy services, as well as resources, to aid practitioners and agencies who work with boys and/or men. Key areas of work include parenting and teenage fathers, sexual health and mental well-being, and relationships. Resources include the Fatherhood Pack and game and the Fatherhood and Schools Project (1995-1998) report. The website has a section on Young Fathers with a link to the companion website.

YMCA
Supports and represents the work of YMCAs providing professional and relevant services that make a difference to the lives of young people and children, particularly when and where they need it most. Core areas include Citizenship and Personal Development, and Parenting and Family relationships.