Judge Sophie Buckley made the ruling despite acknowledging that Gillian Keegan, the Education Secretary, had written to all schools in March to make clear that “parents should be able to view all curriculum materials”, including in cases “where an external agency advises schools that their materials cannot be shared due to restrictions in commercial law, or a school’s contract with the provider prohibits sharing materials beyond the classroom”.Īn investigation by The Telegraph earlier this year found that pupils in some secondary schools have been told there are 100 genders and children are being taught gender fluidity as fact in some major academy trusts and independent schools. Her fight began almost two years ago when her 15-year-old daughter came home from school and said she had been taught that “heteronormativity” was a “bad thing” and that she should be “sex positive” towards relationships during a lesson that parents had been told would be about sexual consent.Ī tribunal judge ruled this month that the commercial interests of the third-party sex education provider outweighed the public interest in forcing the school to release the lesson plan under Freedom of Information laws. It comes after Clare Page, 47, a parental campaigner, lost a legal battle to see the sex education lesson plan used at her daughter’s school. The legislation would also prevent schools from using unpublished materials if they are produced by a third-party provider. Mrs Cates, who has warned that sex education lessons have become a “wild west”, is proposing legislation that would create a legal duty for English schools to share materials used in relationships and sex education lessons with parents.

On Monday, Miriam Cates, the MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, will introduce a “sex education transparency” Private Members’ Bill that will pressure the Government to give a statutory footing to parents’ rights to see lesson plans. Sex education lesson plans and materials would be shared with parents under a new law proposed by a Conservative MP.

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