St Paul’s, one of the leading independent girls’ schools in the UK – founded in 1904 to educate girls to ‘their full potential’, and with a string of eminent alumni, such as Harriet Harman and Rachel Weisz – announced on 19 June that henceforth they will no longer have a Head Girl, because the title…
Well, there’s a surprise. A new survey carried out by The Daily Mail into the sex lives of teenage boys reveals that 40% regularly watch porn, with 48% further admitting that they’d taken part in a reenactment of what they’d seen online. Small wonder that Ofsted have reported an alarming rise in sexual harassment and…
(The following is the text of a talk Lynda gave recently at a conference hosted by the Marriage, Sex and Culture Group. It describes safeguarding issues relating to Relationship, Health and Sex Education (RHSE) teaching, currently being rolled out to all schools. Parents especially need to know what their children are being taught and the harms to which they’re…
TODAY is the ‘Global Day of Parents’. The United Nations has affirmed that, in celebrating this day, nations around the world should recognise that the family has the primary responsibility for nurturing and protecting children. This day appreciates parents for their ‘selfless commitment to children and their lifelong sacrifice towards nurturing this relationship’. The UK has been…
Respected fee-paying school Trent College, near Nottingham, founded in 1868, recently reported its chaplain, Reverend Dr Bernard Randall, to the Government’s anti-terrorism Prevent programme, designed to protect the vulnerable from radicalisation and recruitment into terrorist activity. Good heavens! What on earth was the Reverend doctor’s offence? Had he been indoctrinating pupils into fundamentalist beliefs that encouraged the slaughter…
The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Bill 2021 The Bill became law in March 2021. The “Religion, Values and Ethics” element which is included in it encompasses compulsory lessons on atheism and “non-religious” views for all pupils. Therefore, at the same time as spiritual elements being included in the curriculum, they are being undermined by setting them in a…
IT IS our moral duty to put the welfare of our children ahead of our own and certainly above that of our parents. This is an inalienable part of what it means to be human: it is nothing less than a prerequisite for survival. In our response to the Covid-19 virus we have inverted this…
It has been disturbing to see so many recent testimonies of sexual abuse in secondary schools. There is clearly a growing problem in how many teenagers relate to one another. Without a doubt increased sexual expression, both in and out of school, has been fuelled by the ever-more prevalent availability of pornographic material. Sexualised material…
News has broken this Easter-time of horrific reports of child-on-child sexual abuse and harassment across the nation’s schools (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/schools-cover-up-sexual-abuse-by-pupils-htqjjx05s). There have apparently been thousands of anonymous testimonies of serious sexual abuse and rape in schools from students and alumni. Soma Sara, who founded the website Everyone’s Invited, to provide a platform for her friends where they could share stories of…
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