Asleep at the Wheel: An Examination of Gender and Safeguarding in Schools - Policy Exchange

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A new report by Policy Exchange today (30 March 2023) reveals that schools are increasingly becoming influenced by gender ideology, to the extent that fundamental safeguarding principles are being compromised by school’s approaches to children with gender distress and their peers.

New research within this report demonstrates that many schools are failing to routinely inform parents when a child discloses gender distress, compromising single-sex spaces, and many are teaching gender identity beliefs within Relationships, Sex & Health Education (RSHE) as if they are facts. Gender affirmative care is prevalent within the school system, despite this being at odds with safeguarding principles that have been enshrined in law for decades.

The report also highlights how gender identity beliefs came to be so embedded within the school system, by tracking the influence of external agencies promoting radical and unscientific beliefs within both the Department for Education and schools themselves. This has created a safeguarding blind spot when it comes to the issue of gender, which must be rectified urgently.

https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/asleep-at-the-wheel/

Thank you for posting this IwantToRetire

Have to admit I haven't read it. Does the Policy Exchange have much political clout?

To answer my own question I see it has been mentioned in an article in the Telegraph as one of the reasons Sunak is asking for an independent review of sex education in schools. And:

The Prime Minister ordered the DfE to bring forward the review earlier this month after he was presented with a dossier of evidence showing the widespread <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/DFG38/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/18/sex-education-means-gender-dysphoria-new-anorexia-girls-says/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">teaching of gender fluidity as fact.

However, MPs and peers have urged Mr Sunak to take oversight of the review out of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan’s hands.

Concern over 'soft' approachSenior government figures are understood to be concerned about the Education Secretary's “soft” approach to transgender issues. They cited her remarks earlier this year when she suggested that 16-year-olds are old enough to decide to change their gender.

Rishi Sunak orders independent review of sex education

There's a thread about this already https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4774198-schools-let-pupils-switch-gender-without-informing-parents-policy-exchange-report

Well I did search and nothing came up about Policy Exchange or the report title!

I do think it a shame that the forum software mumsnet uses if so clunky.

First of all you cant have threaded threads, and second if they have a tagging function (and posters bothered to tag) it would be easier to find, and link together related threads.