Our Director, Peter D. Williams, provides key context for evaluating the ‘decriminalisation’ of abortion.

This new paper by counsellor Lucy Beney examines the reasons why 20% of school age children in the UK are diagnosed with a mental health condition and British teenagers and young people are failing to thrive.

FET Director Peter D. Williams analyses proposals to introduce physician-assisted suicide into law and medicine in the United Kingdom, surveys the evidence from overseas jurisdictions, and draws conclusions as to the negative effects that assisted suicide and euthanasia have on the family and the safeguarding of vulnerable patients.

Research by Claire Loneragan and the Women’s Rights Network exposes how special interest groups and private businesses collect taxpayers’ money in plain sight, to the ideological capture of public libraries.

FET Comms and PR Officer Lucy Marsh outlines the key problems with the ‘Adolescence’ Craze.

A republication of a piece by our Director, Peter D. Williams, on the realities of ‘emergency contraception’.

This is an updated version of an opinion piece published by FET in January 2023 in light of the Second Reading of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on 29 November 2024.

This report by researcher Lottie Moore examines the emergence of another controversial set of beliefs about boys and young men, and the extent to which schools are incorporating these as they approach the issue of masculinity within RSHE.

This week there have been alarming reports of the state of children’s health in the UK. The Academy of Medical Sciences published a new report on the worsening health of under-fives, highlighting that the UK is 30th out of 49 rich countries for infant mortality.

This landmark paper by the late Norman Wells in 2017 presciently articulates the underlying conditions that led to the grooming gangs scandal: most notably, normalisation of and professional ambivalence towards underage sexual activity that enabled child sexual exploitation.

The Family Education Trust (FET) laments the passing of the dangerous ‘assisted dying’ Bill proposed by Kim Leadbeater MP at Third Reading by just 23 votes (less than half of the 55 vote majority it had at Second Reading).

The Family Education Trust (FET) has expressed its strongest and most profound opposition to an amendment to the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill which would disapply the crimes of ‘unlawful procurement of miscarriage’ and ‘child destruction’ to women who engage in ‘DIY’ chemical abortions outside of what is permitted by the Abortion Act 1967.

The Family Education Trust (FET) has today launched a new report examining the reasons why 20% of school age children in the UK are diagnosed with a mental health condition and British teenagers and young people are failing to thrive.

After last night’s passing of the First Stage of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill in the Scottish Parliament, and ahead of the vote on Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in Westminster on Friday, FET points to research showing the deleterious effects of such proposals on the family.

The Family Education Trust (FET) has today published a paper which reveals that libraries are failing to be ideologically neutral and a wider institutional failure to exercise proper scrutiny of the use of taxpayer’s money given in grants, as public funds are being funnelled to further an LGBTQ+ agenda and promote gender ideology to children.

Following the landmark victory for For Women Scotland at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (SCOTUK), FET calls on the UK Government to establish consistent safeguarding by repealing the Gender Recognition Act.

The Family Education Trust (FET) expresses its deep concern at the announcement from the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer that the Netflix drama ‘Adolescence’ will be made available for schools to show to all secondary age children. We know this concern is shared by many other organisations involved in the safeguarding of children.

Our 2017 report on grooming gangs 'Unprotected' is now available to download for free in light of the renewed interest in historic child abuse after the Government rejected calls to open a new inquiry in Oldham.

In the newest FET Report, our Director Peter D. Williams critiques the system of assisted suicide (where a physician provides lethal drugs to a qualifying patient to end their own life) proposed by the Bill, including the purported safeguards of eligibility criteria and procedural gatekeeping.

The following notification statement was included in our December Bulletin to members, on our ‘cancellation’ from the RAF Club.

In the final speech to our 2025 Annual Conference, former MP Miriam Cates, now a presenter on GB News, notes three foundations of the family which upholding important pillars of human flourishing, the sacred worth of children, the establishment of life-long monogamous marriage and the upholding of parental authority. Cates accounts the anti-child nature of liberalism and the current socio-political consensus, and argues the necessity of the restoration of safe boundaries for the creation of a truly pro-child culture.

In the third contribution of our 2025 Annual Conference, political commentator and broadcaster Connor Tomlinson gave a speech outlining the misplaced criticism and even demonisation and scapegoating of boys – particularly from white working class backgrounds – from the moral panic surrounding so-called ‘toxic masculinity’ to the treatment of boys in educational settings. Tomlinson critiques and accounts the troubles our society is causing for itself now and in the future in the manifold corrupting and damaging elements of the Permissive Society and ‘woke’ egalitarianism, all of which produces what C.S. Lewis called ‘men without chests’.

In the second speech to our 2025 Annual Conference, Katharine Birbalsingh, the Headteacher of the Michaela School, a free secondary school in Wembley which she founded in 2014, talks about the dangers of being ‘friends’ with children, whether as parents, teachers, or as a society, and how a ‘child-led’ approach in parenting, teaching, or social discourse and cultural mores leads to harmful outcomes for young people.

Opening our 2025 Annual Conference, philosopher Dr James Orr described seven areas of policy where social conservatives can achieve victory, and ensure that British society ‘flowers’ again: Fertility; (Term) Limits; Offspring; Women’s Rights, Exploitation, Relabelling and suicide Skepticism.

Our Director Peter D. Williams went on GB News with Nana Akua and Ben Leo to discuss the guilty verdict of a woman who simply offered help outside an abortion facility for having violated a ‘buffer zone’.

Our Director Peter D. Williams went on Talk TV to discuss with Mike Graham the Committee investigation of Kim Leadbeater MP’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would legalise assisted suicide in England and Wales.

On the day that judgement was justly passed on those responsible for the horrifying killing of Sara Sharif, FET Director Peter D. Williams discussed the safeguarding implications of tragic case, and the danger of misplaced attacks on homeschooling, with Dawn Neesom on GB News.

In the light of the publication of Kim Leadbeater MP’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, our Director Peter D. Williams went on Talk TV to debate with host Julia Hartley-Brewer on whether the UK should legalise not only the assisted suicide of terminally ill adults, but as Hartley-Brewer favours, euthanasia also, and the extension of both practices to all those who feel they no longer wish to live for any reason.