Finally! Keeping children safe in education has been updated!

I'll bet she won't. It will be interesting to see what Labour propose as the current draft lays outs some basic principles very clearly that will be difficult to overturn.

Wonder what that means? They'll continue to give trans lobby groups unrestricted access to schools to carry on gaslighting children that they've been born in the wrong body but a sex change will cure them?
Or they've read and understood Cass and will continue to restore safeguarding and remove Stonewall's sticky tentacles from schools?

Bridget Phillipson on bbc with Laura K this morning admitting aspects of this guidance will be reviewed. There we have it. Fuck u Labour.

Thank you so much! Really appreciate your time here. 🙏

Me too. I hope my grandkids will look back on this in the future and it will be a thing of the past seen akin to lobotomy. Fingers crossed very very few children will be granted use for the purposes of the research and once early results come out it is all halted and they are given the compassion care they deserve.

I share that anguish. But I am cautiously optimistic that no matter how deeply the dodgy adults are embedded in the LP, the emerging data demonstrates appalling outcomes for so many children and young people. The sense of self preservation is strong in many politicians and as it becomes apparent that they chose the wrong side of history in promoting sterilisation and bodily harm in young people, there will be a change of direction.
I hope.

Ah yes, I see what you mean.

I was only saying that I think KCISE will stay as written.

Yes I was a little disappointed with the cass review as I feel it didn’t go far enough. It still supports puberty blockers as part of a clinical trial for certain groups of children. However, on balance I appreciate that they had to be practical considering where we were starting from and it will protect a lot of children.

Once the research has been done and proves the dire consequences the government will be well placed to ban their use completely for gender questioning children. I just feel anguished for the children who will be sacrificed for research purposes. Especially as they are likely to be the most vulnerable - early onset gender distress (suggestive of sexual abuse or other severe forms of trauma) and affirming parents incapable or unwilling to do the right things to address their child’s mental illness.

I really cannot see how Labour could make part of KCISE statutory, and other parts not.

The whole point, is that it is all statutory.

Likewise, I would be super surprised if the changes were scrapped for September. Education is a behemoth, it takes forever to turn.

My MAT has already had a focus session with the school leaders, on what they need to include in the September inset programme, and how they are going to train us in it all.

10,000 staff received this today, that's a hell of a double back, if it is changed.

I may well be wrong, but I can't see how this can be turned around - the Labour manifesto stated that they will work to implement the Cass recommendations (OWTTA)

Consultation linked by sex matters on X.

There is a consultation on it which closes on the 20th I think. We need to all reply as the TRSs will be! I imagine Labour will reverse it all for 2025...

Hope that helps, I can only apologise again for the poor photo, I couldn't get it to upload any other way

Trans children are no longer mentioned, they are referred to as "gender questioning" children.

T has been removed from the initial sentence, saying that being lesbian, gay or bisexual is not in itself an inherent riak factor for harm (T was added at the lobbying of Nancy Kelly of Stonewall).

The second paragraph states that Cass has identified that caution is necessary with children questioning their gender, as there remain many unknowns about the impact of social transition, and that children may have wider vulnerabilities, including complex mental health and psychosocial needs, and in some cases additional diagnosis of ASD and/or ADHD.

Then recommends that families should be encouraged to seek clinical help and advice.

4th paragraph, schools need to take a cautions approach, consider the broad range of individual needs and do this in partnership with the parents of the child.

5th paragraph, is the same as before, stating that there needs to be open communication.

Can anyone summarise the changes re: Gender questioning in KCSIE for a thicko? I need to spell it out very clearly to my child’s school, TIA!

As the parent of a gender questioning ASD child, I welcome this with open arms. Caution should absolutely be the watchword here....

Ah, right, thanks. I was squinting at it on my phone!

It will be statutory from Sept 2024

There is the expected bit at the top, that this "is under review, pending the outcome of the gender questioning children guidance consultation, and the final gender questioning guidance documents being published."

There is also a table which highlights where all of the updates are found, including this one

Sorry about the image quality, I have to take a screenshot of a photograph of a screen (image size issues)

This is the new KCSIE, for training and active from Sept 2024

It is listed as "KCISE 2024 - Pending publication of final version"

Over 10,000 staff have received this, having been told that this is what our safeguarding policies will be based on, come September.

Is that the outdated provisional guidelines that have since been made statutory?

This has just been sent round to every single member of my very large Multi Academy Trust...