When new government guidance requiring schools to provide relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education was put before Parliament in February, it coincided, almost to the minute, with a debate elsewhere in Westminster Hall resisting the change.
The debate was triggered by a petition signed by a vocal minority of parents unhappy about not having the right to withdraw their child from the new relationships classes.
Sadly, objections to teaching about same-sex relationships surfaced from the debate, but the secretary of state was clear in his conviction that “this is a diverse society and children need to know that this is a diverse society”.
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