The Government wants us to panic about ‘illegal schools’. In an attempt at narrative management before key clauses of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act are enacted — clauses that will give new powers to Ofsted to enter premises and seize materials — ITV produced a news piece about the ‘scourge’ of illegal schools in…
Children as young as 11 could soon be recruited as the NHS resumes the Pathways puberty blocker trial despite continuing concerns over long-term risks! In December 2025 we reported that a proposed ‘puberty blocker’ trial had been halted because use of such drugs pose unknown psychological and physiological side effects. However, in a devastating blow…
Preston Davey: Another Child Failed by a System That Put Ideology Before Safeguarding? The recent case of the abuse and murder of Preston Davey represents an unforgiveable failure of British society. Preston was born in prison — his mother is a convicted murderer, and his father is also a convicted criminal. He was removed from…
Social media for under-16s to be banned — good news for parents? The Government has finally announced its plans to introduce a ban on social media platforms for children under the age of 16, with some restrictions for 16- and 17-year-olds so that there is not a ‘cliff edge’ when a child turns 16. The…
Last month, St Joseph’s Catholic Independent School in Reading announced it would close, ending centuries of private Catholic education. This follows the closure of Trinity Christian School in the same town, also ending many years of low-cost private education for Christian families in Berkshire. The reality of this outcome for both schools is that families…
Surrogacy was widely debated earlier this year, when singer-songwriter Shane McAnally and his ‘husband’ Michael Baum shared a video of their surrogate born baby saying the word ‘mama’ in response to a question about whether he wanted ‘dada’ or ‘pops.’ The video shows the two men laughing at the baby saying, ‘there is no mama.’ …
National examination board still captured by Stonewall Major education publisher and examination board, Pearson, and Stonewall, the LGBT pressure group, have maintained a long-standing partnership, which was established in 2017-2018 to create an LGBT-Inclusive Curriculum Guide for UK secondary schools, with Pearson acting as a founding partner and sponsor to help schools integrate LGBT themes into lessons. In an…
Labour MP for South Derbyshire, Samantha Niblett, has launched a campaign called ‘Summer of Sex’. The campaign slogan — ‘Yes sex please, we’re British’ — is designed to prompt a ‘national conversation’ about the need for ‘open, inclusive, lifelong, sex education’. Alarmingly, her campaign promotes a debased, individualistic, view of human sexuality which she…
Children’s screen time: The Government intervenes again One of the Government’s more palatable interventions in family life is the recently issued ‘new screen time guidance for the parents of under-fives’. The guidance was issued on the strength of a report by the ‘Early Years Screen Time Advisory Group’, which was led by Dame Rachel De…
On April 1st, the National Education Union, passed a motion to prevent ‘censorship’ in UK schools. Speaking about the motion, the General Secretary, Daniel Kebede, said: “Fostering a love of reading, a thirst for knowledge, and an interest in the world around us is at the very heart of a good education system. Reading a…
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