After almost a year in the making, yesterday RSHE Conference North West 2026 actually happened!
People travelled from far and wide to join us in Manchester, alongside familiar faces who have supported my work and the RSHE Network for years, and new faces who had only recently come across me and what I do.♥️ And what a day!
Emma Neville kicked us off talking menopause and why it belongs in education with young people. Laurie Elle shared her experience of AI, deepfakes and life online, including the very real implications for consent and digital safety. I got everyone Getting to Grips with Sex through a practical workshop on non-fatal strangulation, before Dr Rhianna Netherton, paediatrician and founder of UniteHER, finished the day talking better period education, menstrual wellbeing and body literacy.
We also got everyone working together to think about what genuinely age-appropriate RSHE looks like.
It was exactly what I wanted the conference to be: useful, current, practical and full of conversations about where RSHE needs to go next.
And because I never want people leaving my events with just a notebook full of scribbles, I’ve shared a conference Trello too, packed with links and resources from the day.
RSHE Conference North West 2026 – Delegate Trello
A huge thank you to everyone who spoke, attended, travelled, shared, supported and helped make it happen.
One very tired but very happy RSHE educator. We did it. ♥️
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