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In the wake of the emerging scandal over allegations of child-on-child sexual harassment and abuse, including rape, VfJUK has written to the Secretary of State for Education, the Chairman of the Education Select Committee, and the Prime Minister, calling for urgent review of RSHE policy and for the removal of all materials that prioritise the liberal…
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…
A big thank you to all those who wrote to their MP requesting delay to allow time for proper preparation Apparently, the adage that every cloud has a silver lining may be true. In the Department for Education’s latest Guidance, issued in February and aimed at minimising transmission of the coronavirus Covid-19 in schools post-lockdown, they…
Important Message from SPUC Safe at School The new compulsory subjects of Relationships Education in primary schools and Relationships & Sex Education (RSE) in secondary schools, officially came into force in ALL schools in England in September 2020. The new regulations state that parents must be consulted before the governing body of a school makes its RSE policy. However, due…
New RSE Regulations, passed in 2019, were due to come into force in schools from September 2020, though their implementation has been held over till the summer term of this year due to the pandemic. They cover a range of issues to do with behaviour, relationships, sexuality, sexual orientation and gender, raising profound moral issues that have divided humankind throughout history. Michael Petek, in this…
In 2015 I spent a week in Romania talking to pro-family groups in five different towns and cities urging them to resist moves by the Romanian Government to introduce graphic sex education into their schools. I spoke about the sex education programmes in British schools and cautioned them not to be taken in by such…
The sex lessons pupils are forced to attend YOU may not have noticed it, but there is a quiet revolution under way in Wales. The innocuous-sounding Curriculum and Assessment Bill, which is slowly making its way through the Welsh Assembly, seeks to scrap all existing protections in relation to sex education and force every pupil…
Aristotle, echoed by St Ignatius Loyala, famously said, ‘Give me a child till he’s seven, and I will show you the man’. Adolf Hitler, in inimitable and terrifying fashion, developed this maxim, stating baldly, He alone who owns the youth, gains the future, thereby demonstrating not just the importance of early education, but providing an…
Bristol Employment Tribunal has rejected Kristie Higgs’ claims for discrimination and harassment in connection with her dismissal for two Facebook posts that raised concerns about transgenderism and sex education at her son’s Church of England primary school. Ironically, the decision has been made shortly after new government guidelines have restricted the Relationships and Sex Education…
It cannot be denied that the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown led to an unprecedented situation in recent times. There are ongoing rules and restrictions affecting schools, so it is not possible to gauge the full impact that such measures, and the pandemic itself, are having on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing….
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