Accord has criticised the Department for Education for failing to recommend to schools that they should provide pupils with age appropriate Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) as part of their duties to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. The Department’s new statutory guidance for schools on safeguarding which was published yesterday, ‘Keeping children safe in education’, advises schools on looking out for signs of abuse and neglect among pupils, what to do if they suspect it may be taking place, as well as setting out the due diligence they should show in the employment of staff and how to deal with any complaints against staff. However, the guidance only makes passing reference to Sex and Relationships Education, simply noting that schools can provide it.
Chair of the Accord Coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, said ‘The development of high quality SRE in state funded schools is being frustrated by a narrow and ideologically driven lobby that lacks evidence and seeks to delay when information surrounding how human reproduction occurs is presented in schools. Age appropriate SRE can make a profound impact on the health and wellbeing of pupils, giving children and young people the tools to be clear about personal boundaries, resist pressure, seek help when they need it, as well as challenge misleading and inappropriate messages in the media. It is therefore both disappointing and irresponsible that the Government has missed another opportunity to send a clear signal to schools that it is in the interests of their pupils that they provide SRE.’
Accord has long campaign for pupils to have a curriculum entitlement to SRE. Earlier this year the Department for Education gave way to pressure and endorsed supplementary guidance to its own 2000 guidance for schools on sex education. The supplementary guidance was written three expert groups in the provision of SRE: the PSHE Association, Brook and the Sex Education Forum.
In a testimony to the Home Affairs Select Committee in 2012, the Deputy Children’s Commissioner for England claimed that the sexual exploitation of children in England took place in every ‘town, village and hamlet’. Last year Ofsted published a report that argued there was a clear link between a lack of SRE education and young people’s vulnerability to inappropriate sexual behaviours and sexual exploitation.
Is it any wonder? You have feckless parents having numerous children to different fathers. It has become the norm and their children repeat the cycle. There used to be a stigma to such behaviour, but no longer. Young people are bombarded with sexual imagery – you only have to look at people like Rihanna and other pop start to see that. Even the soaps legitimise young teens having sex – they all have young teenagers who have sex and who have babies. Where are the role models? Why aren’t young children encouraged to do something with their lives and take pride in achieving something?
I’m surprised we’re not top! our teenagers are selfish, disgusting, loud, drunks and trouble makers when they are out and that includes girls.. This country’s youngsters are embarrassing and they are the same when they are abroad…I don’t know what’s happened… Why is this not surprising? most teenagers now days have terrible morals, horrible personalities and think that the most important thing in the world is looking good, being popular and being in a relationship. Most girls are fake looking and trashy and boys have lost that ‘gentleman’ quality about them. Teenagers nowadays are vile and I say this a NINETEEN year old. It disgusts me that being smart, virginal or sensible is seen as ‘stupid’ or ‘not cool’. It’s so sad.
Western girls of 9 and 11 are having babies out of wedlock but they are not allowed to marry at such ages. Thanks to sex education in primary schools. Obviously a lot of people are ignorant about sex education in our primary schools, which is a lot more explicit than a display in Boots. Children are sexually aware at an early age and therefore are encouraged to experiment with their bodies which is not wise.
The native Brits have double standards and are hypocrites; they don’t mention the fact that the majority of men who go to countries in East Asia looking for under aged sex are natives European men.
This is sickening. It’s no wonder Great Britain is in such a bad shape. Ten years old British girls are having babies out of wedlock. They are not allowed to get married but are allowed to have babies. Teenage pregnancy rate in Great Britain is the highest in Western Europe. It is a civilised country and Yemen is a backward country because it allows young girls to get married.
Indiscipline, incivility, binge drinking, drug addiction, gun and knife crimes, teenage pregnancies and abortion are part and parcel of British schooling. These are the reasons why majority of Muslim parents would like to send their children to Muslim schools with Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. Only less than 5% attend Muslim schools and more than 95% keep on attending state and church schools to be mis-educated and de-educated by non-Muslim monolingual teachers.
There are hundreds of state and church schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be opted out as Muslim Academies. There is no place for a non-Muslim child or a teacher in a Muslim school.
Sex is about procreation. The human species have made it into recreation. Most people have indulged in sex, but, to me it is smutty and dirty because it is not about procreation, we have made it into a recreation. That is going against nature. Only the human species could have achieved that. But, then the human species is not up to much!
IA
London School of Islamics Trust