7/26/2023 0 Comments Linkedin website log on![]() The Information Commissioner’s Office and last week a Judge in a first-tier tribunal ruled that SSE’s commercial interests trump her right to obtain copies of the materials. Page reacted by asking to see the lesson plan and teaching materials used at her daughter’s school, Haberdashers’ Hatcham College, a state secondary in New Cross.Īs far as parents had been told, the School of Sexuality Education (SSE), which describes itself as a “sex education charity providing in-school workshops and training”, was going into the school to teach 15-year-olds about consent.īut after the school and SSE said they were unable to give Page copies of the lesson plan and materials because of a confidentiality agreement, Page tried to use freedom of information laws to obtain copies. Her fight began almost two years ago after her daughter came home from school and said she was told to be “sex positive” and taught that heteronormativity was a “bad thing”. Mr Sunak has now ordered an urgent review of sex education, which is due to report in the autumn. Moreover, working with Miriam Cates, the Conservative MP for Pennistone and Stocksbridge, Page’s research into third-party sex education providers has helped put pressure on Rishi Sunak to address the problem. In Lewisham, where she lives, support has come from gender-critical feminists and a host of parents’ groups, including UsForThem, Bayswater, and the Family Education Trust. She has crowdfunded around £11,000 for legal fees from parents around the country, including in Scotland, where parents have protested against “pornographic” sex education lessons in schools. Page, 47, has become a leading figure among a growing group of parents who say they are worried about what is being taught in relationships and sex education (RSE) without parental consent or consultation. “But having so much support from parents’ groups that are speaking with one voice on this issue, it seems obvious that there is enough support for me to carry on.” “I did consider giving up from the point of view that it’s draining on my family time and my personal resources in a way that’s a big commitment,” she says. The mother-of-two found out this month that once again the commercial interests of a third-party sex education provider were judged to be more important than the public interest of showing parents what is taught in schools. After losing a legal appeal to get a school to disclose sex education materials used in her daughter’s lesson, Clare Page considered giving up.
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