Tory MP demands Government pass ‘sex education transparency’ law
By Louisa Clarence-Smith, Telegraph:
Miriam Cates accuses schools of ‘hiding materials from parents’ as education expert says law change will ‘reassure families’.
Sex education lesson plans and materials would be shared with parents under a new law proposed by a Conservative MP.
On Monday, Miriam Cates, the MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, will introduce a “sex education transparency” Private Members’ Bill that pressures the Government to give a statutory footing to parents’ rights to see lesson plans.
Mrs Cates, who has warned that sex education lessons have become a “wild west”, is proposing legislation that would create a legal duty for English schools to share materials used in relationships and sex education lessons with parents.
The legislation would also prevent schools from using unpublished materials if they are produced by a third-party provider.
It comes after Clare Page, 47, a parental campaigner, lost a legal battle to see the sex education lesson plan used at her daughter’s school. Her fight began almost two years ago when her 15-year-old daughter came home from school and said she had been taught that “heteronormativity” was a “bad thing” and that she should be “sex positive” towards relationships during a lesson that parents had been told would be about sexual consent.
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