A legal “loophole” is preventing parents from finding out what their children are being taught in school sex education lessons, peers in the House of Lords have warned. The peers were speaking in support of an amendment to the Schools Bill tabled by Baroness Morris of Yardley seeking to increase transparency around material provided by…
Christian Concern’s Head of Education Steve Beegoo alerts parents to the reality that many schools mark or celebrate Pride in June – and explains what they can do about it. As many as half of all schools may be marking or celebrating Pride during the school day in the month of June. Reports are coming…
Last month, a remarkably brave young woman became headline news, having been forced out of her school because she dared to question the new State-approved religion. She committed the blasphemy of asking a visiting speaker (a baroness from the House of Lords) to consider the possibility that biological sex might be real. For this heresy, the 18-year-old…
This Authoritarian Government’s Education Bill Will Allow Local Authorities to Force Home Educated Children to Attend Their Own Failing Schools Who is responsible for your child’s education? It may well surprise you to learn that if you are a parent in the U.K. today then it is legally your responsibility to ensure that your child…
Home educating families and others that focus on the development of children are horrified at the first reading of the Schools Bill, introduced in the House of Lords on 11 May 2022. Education Otherwise say that the Bill will destroy the very basis of home education: provision of an individualised education to a child,…
Forget the Catholic Inquisition, Protestant iconoclasm, or the Salem witch-hunts – there’s a new kid on the block. He, or perhaps I should say ‘ze’, goes under the banner of LGBTQ+ equality, inclusivity and tolerance. It’s a faith that will brook no questioning or dissent. But the description of its foundational values as ‘inclusivity and…
Calls for new RSE guidance amid concerns over ‘inappropriate’ content The government is being urged to issue new guidance on Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) over concerns about the content of the curriculum. The concerns were raised in a letter from the Family Education Trust to schools minister, Robin Walker. “Children are being sexualised,…
The Archbishop of Southwark is to be applauded for his stand against sexually explicit LGBT books in Catholic schools. A row has broken out at the Catholic St John Fisher School in Croydon after the planned visit by gay activist author Simon James Green, whose teen books feature LGBTQ characters and sexually explicit material, was…
Four mothers are suing the Welsh Government over a proposal to make Sex Education lessons compulsory. They represent over 5,000 parents and grandparents across Wales. In 2020 they formed the campaign group – Public Child Protection Wales Welsh Ministers insist the new curriculum, is “developmentally appropriate” for children, but campaigners say the topics are “inappropriate”…
(This Parent Survey will take approximately 10 -15 minutes to complete.) Parent Power, a group of parents and educators campaigning to uphold the rights of parents in education, would like to gather evidence about how Relationships and Sex Education in schools is working out for parents across the UK. We would like to understand the extent…
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