Information on Sex Ed lessons available to Parents

[DavidChecker]

According to The Times front page today (24 Oct) the Dept of Education is writing to schools instructing that information on relationships, sex, health education IRSHE) must be available to parents.
The law of copyright is trumped by right of parents to know what is being taught to their children.
"Debunking the myth of copyright". "No ifs, no buts and no more excuses" Are quotes from the article.
Parents should be able to see the material without the need to download.
There is more and other papers might have more or a slightly different slant to the story.
Thanks Gillian

There is nothing in copyright law that stops parents looking at material. In just the same way an artist holding copyright over a picture doesn’t prevent or limit people looking at it.

Looking at schemes of work does not breach copyright and is usually freely available on the schools websites for parents to see

Many posts on MN saying parents NOT allowed to know what is being taught to children. Stonewall and similar providers 'helping' schools with gender stuff. One thread was a few weeks ago I believe.
Court backed commercial interests aspect.

Yep, all the schools where I have taught (state primary) have always shared the resources with parents beforehand. And invited them in for a session with examples of videos (NSPCC ones) and story books that we use.

This is strange 'news' as we do it already and have been for years. 🤔

There is now effectively a Wild West of dodgy businesses offering an array of sex Ed materials often with very age inappropriate or ideological driven materials that state commercial interest and copyright to stop parents seeing what their children are taught.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/06/19/how-parents-are-kept-in-the-dark-about-sex-education/

It's great that your school does this. My eldest child's school did this too.

However the youngest one (different school) did not. They brought in a (rather dubious in my opinion) third party and informed no parents beforehand or shared any materials. I did manage to find some of the videos they produce myself via Youtube.

I found it very strange behaviour for a school who would send out permission slips for literally everything else under the sun. For example in a similar time frame I had to sign a permission slip for him to listen to a talk from the Fire Service about fire safety.

It absolutely is something that's happening. It might not be the majority of schools but enough that numerous parents have experienced it and in some cases it's gone to court.

Edited to add - I have a strong suspicion that this third party may have advised the school to keep parents in the dark because it was very out of character for the school.

And invited them in for a session with examples of videos (NSPCC ones)

Don’t get too complacent about the NSPCC. First there was the James Makings affair - a member of staff who wore rubber fetish outfits to work and filmed himself masturbating in the NSPCC toilets and uploading that to the internet. NSPCC initial response to people raising concerns about this on Twitter was to say they were being homophobic and encouraged followers to report those saying Mr Makings behaviour was totally unacceptable boundary crossing. (They were forced to sack him later).

Now they also have some very worrying safeguarding issues;

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/childline-has-a-safeguarding-problem/