The Values Foundation – fighting for the family
by Louise Kirk, The Conservative Woman:
WHAT to do when the government steamrollers over parents’ protest and imposes Relationships education on children that would make an adult blush? One answer is to bang the table and protest to friends. Another is to set up a body which even in its name challenges the government’s amorphous claim that all is being done in the name of British Values.
Values? The new Values Foundation points out that what gave Britain our freedom and our culture is the Judeo-Christian heritage which has shaped us for generations: our laws, institutions, system of government and, yes, our family values. It is these core values which are now under threat.
The Values Foundation for Faith and Families in Education was launched in the Houses of Parliament on 25 March. Mrs Judith Nemeth, Executive Director, explained that it has three primary aims: to represent faith schools and their families (and anyone else with a traditional approach to family values) before government and its agencies; to open a debate on what British values are and so recover respect for faith in the public square, and to revisit the Equality Act of 2010, to resolve what happens legally when two or more protected characteristics clash. At present, one characteristic is often found to be unfairly ‘protected’ above others.
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