Reply to Gov Consultation on Relationships and Sex Education
Response: Government Consultation - Relationships education, relationships and sex education, and health education in England
Response: Government Consultation - Relationships education, relationships and sex education, and health education in England

Find Draft Guidance here: https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/supporting_documents/20170718_%20Draft%20guidance%20for%20consultation.pdf
Find Consultation here: https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/supporting_documents/180718%20Consultation_call%20for%20evidence%20response_policy%20statement.pdf
Answer Online here: https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/consultation/subpage.2018-06-11.0090277436/
The Government have released a consultation on Relationships education (RelEd), relationships and sex education (RSE), and health education in primary and secondary schools. The draft documents contain certain elements which many parents would find alarming and now is your chance to tell the Government to amend/remove these sections.
So what is the present consultation about?
Following the consultation earlier in the year (about whether or not to make RSE a mandatory subject) the government has published draft regulations, draft guidance for RelEd and RSE and is now inviting comments on these documents before they are finalised and take effect from September 2020.
This guidance will apply to all schools in England concerning the teaching of RSE at schools.
What should I be concerned about?
- Importantly, if the guidance is implemented it increases the power of the state to prevent parents from withdrawing their own children from these lessons. At primary school, parents will have no right to withdraw their children from Relationships Education and at secondary level, parents have no legal right to withdraw their children from sex education. The right of a parent to withdraw their child from ‘sex education’ at secondary school has been replaced by the ‘right to request withdrawal’.
- The guidance integrates a false understanding of sex and marriage into education both at primary and secondary levels. Whilst such issues may be discussed in accord with parental wishes at secondary school, at primary level, this is wholly inappropriate.
- Finally, at secondary school, pupils will be provided with information about where and how to obtain abortions. This is obviously not a morally neutral option as every abortion is deeply wrong and a great tragedy.
CitizenGO is submitting this response on some of the most important questions asked. CitizenGO has not attempted to answer all of the questions. The consultation and the accompanying documents are quite large and we have tried to select the most important problems with the guidance. You are invited to respond to the consultation yourself in part or full here.
Please sign our submission which we will deliver from CitizenGO to the Government on your behalf.
https://consult.education.gov.uk/pshe/relationships-education-rse-health-education/
Sign this petition now!
Response: Government Consultation - Relationships education, relationships and sex education, and health education in England