Rachel Scales is a relationships and sex education (RSE) coordinator and teacher working at a secondary school in Essex. She has advised DfE policy writers and has worked as an education and well-being specialist at Brook, teaching RSE to thousands of students aged 11 -19 in over 20 schools and colleges across London and Essex. She has a postgraduate qualification in sexual health studies from the University of Central Lancashire. She knows how daunting it can be to teach RSE, especially when students ask those awkward questions!