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Teaching RSE with time-honoured, established values

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Safe, healthy relationships

RSE - Get It Right! supports parents, schools and local authorities in England who want to prioritise safeguarding children with the new Relationships Education and Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) that will be compulsory for all schools from September 2020

Department for Education

Latest Guidance

June 2020

A Press Statement on 8th June 2020 announced changes to the implementation of the new RSE Guidelines with important guidance for school on ensuring parents are involved in a robust consultation process on the implementation of RSE.

Secretary of State for Schools Nick Gibb supplemented this in September 2020 by stating that “Schools should ensure also, that when they engage with parents, they provide examples of the resources they plan to use…”

VIEW PRESS STATEMENT

September 2020

DfE Documents

Key Highlights

Transgender ideology

“Materials which suggest that non-conformity to gender stereotypes should be seen as synonymous with having a different gender identity should not be used and you should not work with external agencies or organisations that produce such material.”

Political impartiality

“Your local authority, governing body and headteacher must… secure that where political issues are brought to the attention of pupils, they are offered a balanced presentation of opposing views“.

Pornography

“Great caution should be exercised before setting any assignment, in class or at home, that involves researching a subject where there is a high risk that a child could accidentally be exposed to age inappropriate material, such as pornography. Particularly at primary level, you should be careful not to expose children to over-sexualised content.“

Teaching Resources

Find teaching resources for Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) lessons

VISIT
The family - Lord Jonathan Sachs

Our compassion for those who choose to live differently should not inhibit us from being advocates for the single most humanising institution in history. The family — man, woman and child — is not one lifestyle choice among many. It is the best means we have yet discovered for nurturing future generations and enabling children to grow in a matrix of stability and love. It is where we learn the delicate choreography of relationship and how to handle the inevitable conflicts within any human group. It is where we take the risk of giving and receiving love. It is where one generation passes on its values to the next, ensuring the continuity of a civilisation. For any society, the family is the crucible of its future, and for the sake of our children’s future, we must be its defenders.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

WHAT PARENTS, TEACHERS AND THE PUBLIC ARE SAYING

Your Concerns

"Under these guidelines I have no right to privacy from the opposite sex in changing rooms, loos or on residential trips…The guidance makes me feel that my desire for privacy, dignity, safety and respect is wrong. It makes me feel sad, powerless and confused."
13-year-old Oxfordshire girlLegal case against Oxfordshire County Council for using the Trans Inclusion Toolkit for Schools 2019
"Sexual and reproductive health educational programmes: ... the educational programmes evaluated had no demonstrable effect on the prevalence of HIV ... or other sexually transmitted infections. There was also no apparent effect on the number of young women who were pregnant at the end of the trial."
Amanda J Mason-Jones et al.School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents, 2016, Cochrane Library
"So-called safeguarding tools, like the Brook Sexual Behaviours Traffic Light Tool, which considers consensual sex between teenagers of similar age and developmental ability as a ‘positive choice’ and an opportunity for professionals to give ‘positive feedback’, should be consigned to the dustbin of history. Doctors and social workers need to stop condoning sex with children."
Family Education Trust"Too Much, Too Soon: The government's plans for your child's sex education"
“Some of the boys [in our school] ... are obsessed with murder, rape [of girls], suicide and corporal punishment. The sort of PSHE lesson I witnessed will do nothing to challenge their unhealthy attitudes to sex, relationships and women.”
Teacher, 32yrs, EnglandConcerned about PSHE lessons
"Sex education ought to tell the whole truth about every kind of sex and relationship, including sexual practices that some people find distasteful, such as anal intercourse and sadomasochism."
Peter Tatchell"Let’s Talk About Sex" - Teach Secondary
"Children, parents and carers are not receiving accurate medical information about the risks of early intercourse. Dr Karen Rogstad, consultant physician in genitourinary medicine in Sheffield, said: 'The increase in chlamydia among teenagers is very worrying because teenage girls are more likely to get damage due to chlamydia than older women…'"
Relationships and Sex Education: The Way ForwardA report from the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group
"Children will consider their own rules for how they like to be touched by others and the rules of when it is appropriate to touch themselves, including self-stimulation."
‘All About Me’ lesson plan for year 2Curriculum recently taught in Warwickshire schools - now withdrawn by county council
"Exposing minors to pornographic images and devices subconsciously restructures millions of immature brain-cells and memories and nullifies their ability to give informed moral and cognitive consent."
Judith A Reisman PhDRestructuring the Immature Brain