This week I report on the impending publication of KCSIE 2025 and the uncertain future of regional advisory boards.

KCSIE 2025
The DfE confirmed this week that KCSIE 2025 will be published this month, with only technical changes and will include links to revised guidance on Relationships, Sex, and Health Education and revised guidance on gender questioning children. As usual it will come into force on 1 September.

Future of regional advisory boards
The future of the DfE’s regional advisory boards seems uncertain as their three-year terms come to an end with no re-elections planned. The nine regional advisory boards challenge and advise regional directors (RDs) on decisions around academisation and multi-academy trust growth. There is speculation that the boards will be scrapped due to the emergence of the Regional Improvement for Standards and Excellence (RISE) teams and the pace of academisation has slowed.