There are a growing number of people who are dissatisfied with the way that relationship and sex education (RSE) is taught in Britain’s schools. Groups and individual parents have been raising the alarm about schools using materials from third party sexual and gender activist groups that may not be age appropriate.

Because of this rising concern the UK government decided that they would review the material that is being used for RSE in schools. However the Tories have let Britons down by keeping the results of that inquiry into these learning materials secret from the public. This is in my view disgraceful as we should know what our children are being taught and not have this material hidden from the public.

The Daily Telegraph said:

Gillian Keegan is facing a backlash from Tory MPs and parents for refusing to publish sex education reform recommendations.

The Telegraph has learnt that the Education Secretary has no plans to reveal the outcome of a sex education review by an independent panel, appointed by the Government to advise on age ratings on lesson materials.

Rishi Sunak ordered an urgent review of sex education in March after The Telegraph exposed evidence of widespread teaching of “age inappropriate” materials in schools, including 13 year-olds being told there are 100 genders.

Nearly 50 Conservative MPs wrote to the Prime Minister urging him to launch an independent inquiry.

MPs claimed the Department for Education’s (DfE) most recent relationships and sex education guidance, produced in 2019 in consultation with Stonewall, the LGBT+ charity, had allowed “activist groups” to overly influence teaching materials. The guidance does not set age limits on what can be taught.

Five education experts were appointed to an independent advisory panel, including Alasdair Henderson, the joint deputy chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and Sir Hamid Patel, the chief executive of Star Academies and a member of the Ofsted board.

They were due to report back to the DfE by September, but a department spokesman said there were no plans to publish the panel’s recommendations. The DfE has pledged to publish its own plans to reform sex education for consultation before the end of the year, after considering the recommendations.

What an absolute disgrace it is that the results of this examination of educational materials is being hidden from parents and the public. I can’t see any reason for this apart from maybe the inquiry has already uncovered a whole lot of nastiness masquerading as educational materials. It’s utterly wrong that the only people who will see this report are those in the Education Department who probably allowed the wrong stuff to be taught to kids in the first place. I would not let a fox guard my chickens and the government should not be letting civil servants, who may have their own biases, decide what is and what is not appropriate to be taught to children.