The Government has been urged to act swiftly to protect pupils from inappropriate school materials after announcing its review of statutory guidance on Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in England. In correspondence passed to The Christian Institute, WCC claimed: “The All About me program is not sex education”. However, guidance accompanying the programme admitted that it includes three “essential” sex education lessons. Even in lessons which WCC classified as Relationships Education rather than sex education, children as young as six were encouraged to masturbate and Year 5 pupils shown explicit images. Parents have no automatic right to withdraw their children from Relationships Education.

Source: The Times March 17, 2023 14:19 UTC