An MP wants to give parents the legal right to see materials used in relationships and sex education (RSE) lessons and prohibit schools from using any externally produced teaching resources that are not available for public scrutiny. On Monday, Conservative MP Miriam Cates said that she will introduce a Private Members’ Bill to push the…

Parents are turning to home education because they fear their children are being exposed to information about adult sexual acts in schools, according to an MP. On Monday, MP Andrea Jenkyns told Parliament that she has heard from parents in her Morley and Outwood constituency in Yorkshire “who feel they’ve got no choice but to…

Parents fighting compulsory sex education in Wales, which the government says will “gradually empower learners” from a young age in subjects such as equity, sex, gender, and sexuality, have lost a judicial review. Child protection advocates Public Child Protection Wales had tried to overturn Wales’s Labour-led administration’s compulsory Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) lessons for…

A group of parents have lost a legal challenge to stop a new sex education curriculum from being taught across Wales from September. Public Child Protection Wales, a parent’s group, sought a High Court injunction on Aug. 23 asking the Welsh government to delay the rollout of the compulsory Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE), which…

The children’s commissioner for England has spoken of her shock at some of the materials being provided to schools by external sex education organisations. On Tuesday, Dame Rachel de Souza told the Commons Education Committee, chaired by Robert Halfon MP, that she would examine how relationships and sex education (RSE) is taught in schools. The Office…