Schools and safeguarding • Page 2
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Single-sex toilets in schools
Are your daughter’s safety, dignity, health and privacy important at school? Single-sex toilets are being removed in schools despite the Equality...
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Responding to the schools guidance consultation
The Department for Education published draft guidance for schools in England on gender-questioning children for consultation at the end...
1st February 2024
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Draft response to Department for Education consultation on guidance for schools on gender-questioning children
Draft version for feedback – read the DfE draft guidance for consultation.
1st February 2024
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Lobby groups tell schools to ignore DfE guidance
The Department for Education’s guidance on gender-questioning children was published in December – but many schools are getting materials...
31st January 2024
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Mermaids’ letter shows what the DfE needs to do to make its guidance work for schools
In December 2023, the Department for Education released draft guidance on gender-questioning children for schools and colleges in England....
26th January 2024
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Mixed sex toilets in Wales’ schools
New and refurbished school buildings across Wales are imposing mixed sex toilet facilities on children, reports Merched Cymru. These...
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How trans inclusion in sport is harming women and girls
The harms caused include unfair competition and demoralisation; losing out on records, rankings or on opportunities to participate; no...
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SEEN in Schools
A network of UK school staff – including teachers, teaching assistants, administrative staff, other support staff and school governors...
4th January 2024
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The DfE’s schools guidance – the report card
New draft guidance for schools in England has been published by the Department for Education this morning. In January...
19th December 2023
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Gender Questioning Children: Non-statutory guidance for schools and colleges in England
The Department for Education's draft guidance for consultation from 16th May to 11th July 2024.
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Letter to the EHRC about its technical guidance on the Equality Act
Our letter to Kishwer Falkner and Marcial Boo at the Equality and Human Rights Commission flags the concerns raised...
5th October 2023
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The government needs to put safeguarding first – it should not allow social transitioning in schools
Stephanie Davies-Arai for The Critic
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What is new in the EHRC guidance?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has today released updated technical guidance on the Equality Act for schools in...
22nd September 2023
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NHS issues school trans guide to help teachers, schools and parents after ministers dither on issuing official advice
Connor Stringer for the Mail Online.
NHS say schools should not let kids 'socially transition' without parental consent The advice... -
EHRC to correct inaccurate schools guidance
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has written to us to confirm that it is undertaking a rapid review...
17th September 2023
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Schools are in danger of breaking the law on sex and gender
The Department for Education’s new guidance for schools needs to be produced soon, and it needs to be aligned...
4th September 2023
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Keeping children safe as girls and boys in education
The first review of the UK's legal framework on sex and gender in education shows that thousands of schools...
4th September 2023
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Dear Kemi: will you tackle the technical guidance?
Sex Matters has written to the Minister for Women and Equalities calling on her to ask the Equality and...
3rd September 2023
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Letter to the Secretary of State for Women and Equalities
After a meeting with her to discuss the forthcoming schools guidance, we wrote to Kemi Badenoch MP to clarify...
3rd September 2023
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Getting to good schools guidance
The Secretary of State for Education is due to release guidance for schools in relation to “gender-questioning” children (who...
30th August 2023
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It’s wrong to lie to children: The Department of Education should learn this simple lesson
Stephanie Davies-Arai for The Critic.
Davies-Arai traces the history of the government's continually delayed transgender schools guidance, originally due to... -
Why is the government getting in such a mess over the schools guidance?
It has been reported that Rishi Sunak is planning to delay issuing trans guidance for schools after the Attorney...
19th July 2023
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Schools guidance: the Education Secretary must act
The end of term is getting near, and Secretary of State for Education Gillian Keegan has still not handed...
14th July 2023
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Letter to the Prime Minister, 12th July 2023
We wrote to the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to ask him to fix the problems created by unscientific and...
12th July 2023
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Why DfE dithering is to blame for the trans cat-fight
Helen Joyce for SchoolsWeek
Cat-identifying children are a distraction from the fact that schools have been left to teach fiction... -
Trans guidance for schools goes round in circles
The long-awaited guidance from the Department for Education on how schools should respond to children with gender issues in...
5th July 2023
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Rishi’s school rules: Schools to be banned from letting pupils change gender if their parents oppose it in new guidance from Rishi Sunak
Harry Cole and Natasha Clark for The Sun
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Saying no to school transition
Miriam Cates for The Critic
Social transition in schools is wrong, risky and unfair to children — and the government...
