Keeping Children Safe in Education 2025

I fear that will take longer. For that to happen all social workers and Ed psychs etc would need to fully understand and recognise the issues there. With regards to elements of fabricated illness by proxy etc

It must retain the insistence on parental involvement

Yes. But hopefully they'll take it a step further and recognise that some parents are sanctioning their child's transition based on misinformation, including misinformation about suicide risk (although their child may well have been signposted towards suicide e.g. "if I don't transition my life won't be worth living and I'll be more likely to kill myself") and how well/badly evidenced medical interventions are.

Hopefully the revised guidance on Gender Questioning children will be a game changer. They'll have to specify single sex changing rooms, toilets etc in line with both the SC & education law.

It must retain the insistence on parental involvement - although the practice of schools transitioning children in secret has never been challenged in the courts, my understanding of safeguarding / education law is that keeping these secrets from parents is legally unjustifiable.

Fingers crossed the adults in government / DfE have been in charge of this rather than the gender loons.

One would hope that the linked draft guidance documents, gender questioning children and also one on prevent, are not draft and all references to “draft” are changed and made clear they are part of kcsie.

As the term draft has led many to read it as “ignore.” I asked a friend who is a judge and she said it’s there in statutory terms so it’s statutory.

The significant thing seems to be that it is expected to contain links to revised guidance on Relationships, Sex, and Health Education and revised guidance on gender questioning children.

Those will be the interesting documents and the fact that they are linked to by KCSIE makes them de facto statutory?

Governors have to keep their KCSE training up to date too. Needs watching to make sure any outside consultants offering the training don't misinterpret it to suit an agenda. Has been known.

Thank you for posting, OP.

Last year, the section on LGBT children was changed to LGB and gender questioning. However, this remained a "draft" section all year.

This section of the 2024 guidance isn't draft but unfortunately several schools seem to be acting as if it is.

It has a reference to the draft Gender Questioning Children guidance and (like the section on Prevent) it says that it is "under review". But there is nothing that says it's draft.

I can't imagine any schools arguing that they can ignore the Prevent section but there are definitely those saying that they don't need to follow paras 205-209 "because it's draft". One example being my children's school.

Looks like it won’t change much this year:

https://safeguarding.network/kcsie