The Education Select Committee has launched an inquiry into personal, social and health education (PSHE) in schools. PSHE covers a number of topics such as drug education, healthy eating and so on. Sex and relationship education (SRE) is also covered in this topic.
We are very concerned that this inquiry will be used to make sex education a compulsory schools subject. This would mean that children as young as five years old would have to learn about sexual matters. Parents would be unable to protect their children from inappropriate teaching.
It is absolutely vital that there is an overwhelming response from parents, grandparents, teachers, clergy and all concerned citizens saying "no" to compulsory sex education. Compulsory sex education will sever parents from the moral upbringing of their children. And the innocence of children will be wiped out by ever more sexual content in the classroom.
Every school will be affected by this. Every child deserves to be protected.
Please find attached a briefing to help you respond to this inquiry. You will also find the briefing document at www.spuc.org.uk Please circulate the briefing as widely as possible asking others to respond to the inquiry. The deadline for this inquiry is 6 June 2014.
With every good wish,
Antonia Tully
SPUC Safe at School
020 8407 3463
p.s. you may have seen this frightening report today:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10818572/NHS-chiefs-tell-ministers-Change-sex-education-lessons-to-make-all-pupils-learn-about-gay-marriage.html
The NHS in Scotland wants:
- all children to learn about gay marriage in sex education lessons
- children to be given the power to overrule their parents
- a stop to parents campaigning against the content of sex education lessons
- training for teachers to help them overcome their objections to gay marriage
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