Labour doubles down on the school sex agenda
WATCH out, the Government is coming for your children. Labour has recently published an updated version of the relationship, health and sex education (RHSE) guidelines, revising the Conservative government’s draft published last year in response to the campaign by former MP Miriam Cates to tackle inappropriate content in schools.
While there is a glimmer of good news in that parents will have full transparency on sex education materials, and the right of faith schools to teach according to their ethos have been protected, the rest of the guidance should cause serious concerns to families.
As soon as they start primary school, children will be at risk from an onslaught of inappropriate teaching about sex, LGBT content, misogyny, mental health and suicide.
The main headline in the media has been the removal of the Conservatives’ proposed age limit on sex education, meaning that it will be left to schools to decide if they want to teach children under nine about sexual relationships. This comes despite the amount of evidence that this age limit is much needed, due to activist teachers and third-party PHSE organisations exposing children to sexualised content. For example, widely reported incidents have included primary school materials showing explicit sexual activities or inappropriate cartoons aimed at very young children.
The Department for Education (DfE) says: ‘On balance, we think it is important not to restrict schools from being able to use their professional judgment over when topics should be taught for the benefit and safety of pupils.’
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has responded to criticism of the removal of age limits on RHSE by doubling down on this policy, saying sometimes it might be necessary ‘to broach a topic a little bit sooner’ in school. Indeed, Phillipson is well-known for her enthusiasm for compulsory sex education, telling journalists last year that she didn’t think parents should be allowed to remove their children from RHSE lessons in school. She said: ‘I think all children should have a good level of relationship, sex and health education that should apply to all children.’
This must be music to the ears of the Sex Ed lobby, since the big players such as Brook and the Family Planning Association (which receive millions of pounds of Government funding) want no limits on what children can be taught about ‘sexual pleasure’.
In their response to the Conservative government’s consultation on the introduction of mandatory RHSE in 2014, the groups said that ‘if young people want to access porn, out of arousal or curiosity, that’s perfectly healthy and typical’, basing their argument on what some teenagers said they wanted.
This attitude of child-led education and ‘child rights’ are at the root of so many societal problems. Adults are supposed to protect children from harm, not indulge their every wish.
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