In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph, 640 signatories, including Catholic bishops, parish priests, university professors, councillors and doctors, call for legislation to be dropped which will see children as young as seven taught about sex and relationships. From September next year, primary school pupils will learn about puberty, sexual intercourse, marriage and the risk …
Category «Sex Education»
Article – Sex education must not be statutory
The following article by Norman Wells was published by the Daily Telegraph on 21 July 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/5879177/Sex-education-must-not-be-statutory.html The government’s intention to make PSHE (Personal, Social and Health education – including sex and relationships) a statutory part of the national curriculum is a cause for serious concern for several reasons. First, it would limit the influence …
Response – Draft new Sex and Relationship Education guidelines
The Family Education Trust response to the Department for Children, Schools and Families consultation on draft new Sex and Relationships Education Guidance April 2010 Click here for pdf
Publication – Too Much, Too Soon
Too Much, Too Soon: The government’s plans for your child’s sex education Norman Wells Sex education is an ideological battlefield on which a war is being waged for the hearts and minds of children. Behind the innocuous-sounding words used by the sex education lobby, there is a definite agenda at work to undermine the …
Publication – Sex Education in Primary Schools: dispelling the myths
There is considerable confusion surrounding sex and relationships education in primary schools and many myths are in circulation. In this short leaflet, we attempt to dispel some of the most common myths in order to put parents, teachers and school governing bodies in possession of the facts. Download/order leaflet