School support websites

[watertheroses]

School (Y9, 10, 11) will be discussing the LGBT+ community during LGBT+ month.

The school has offered the following for external support. Is this a good cross-section of websites? Thank you for your help.

Mermaids UK
The Kite Trust
Allsorts Youth Project
Childline
Stonewall Youth Website

No.
Not heard of them - but doesn’t bode well with the rest of the group.
No.
Used to be - now no.
No.

I imagine all of these are against DfE guidelines which state external agencies are NOT to promote ‘born in the wrong body’ sexist stereotypes etc.

Others will be better placed to advise on alternatives.

I'm not sure about Childline but otherwise if that is a list of websites for the children to avoid, then that's great.

I've had a quick look at the rewritten Mermaids site - they had to delete large swathes of their information because it was totally wrong. They still breach the Samaritans guidelines about talking about suicide and they are suggesting that parents contact their MP to protest against single sex spaces.

They are still promoting their residential weekends which were full of major safeguarding red flags. They are still implying that puberty blockers are a pause and don't mention any consequences.

They are also still promoting the absolutely awful Pop n Olly whose stories are full of confusing messages to children that ignores safeguarding (like the child who wanders off into the woods and meets an (adult) character sitting on a log crying and stops to chat and then takes him home to meet his family after a long walk together through the forest (I can't bear to watch it again but that is the jist) - not giving out safe messages to children about not talking to strangers.

And that is just on a first glance. I'd say avoid.

Stonewall still haven't managed to even get the correct version of the law and are still pushing for male-bodied people to be included in women's rugby. Says it all really. They are not going to be helpful informing your female children about their rights to single sex spaces.

I haven't got time to look at the rest but they are all on the same page as each other... if that came near my child's school I would be objecting.