DOE Your views matter: relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance.

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Department of Education: Review of the RSHE statutory guidance

Closes 11 Jul 2024

Opened 16 May 2024

Overview
We're seeking views on changes to the relationships, sex and health education statutory guidance.
Why your views matter
We want to hear your views on proposed changes to the statutory guidance on teaching:
relationships education
relationships and sex education
health education
These subjects are collectively known as RSHE.
Your views are important to help ensure that this guidance supports schools to provide high-quality RSHE which meets the needs of children and young people.
If you need help to access the consultation documents or require them in a different format, please contact [email protected]

Give us your views

CLOSES JULY 11th

The SURVEY click HERE

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Quite a long section about proposed age limits for different topics. Most of these limits sound reasonable but I would have liked to have understood their rationale a bit more. Maybe there was some more detail somewhere but I missed it?

One thing I wrote about in the response is actually I don't agree with the blanket prohibition on teaching about "gender identity". There's no point in hiding it, it's everywhere now. What schools should be doing is putting it in context and teaching why it's a controversial philosophical belief, offering critical feminist and safeguarding perspectives alongside. As it stands this guidance is effectively just #NoDebate on this topic.

Similar for the LGB teaching. Don't hide it, put the different views into context. There's a lot of opportunity there to discuss how society and government have navigated thorny topics over clash of rights between freedom to enjoy one's sexual orientation and freedom to practice one's religious beliefs, like in the marriage equality laws where churches etc got an exemption.