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.

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.

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.

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.

I’d like to extend my congratulations to everyone who has spoken in this debate. My apologies that I don’t have time to respond to every point that was raised but I think I can respond to many of the points.

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

FET Director Peter D. Williams analyses proposals to introduce physician-assisted suicide into law and medicine in England and Wales, 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.

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 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.