Please Respond to the Curriculum Reform Consultation (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education Questionnaire)
CCFON and CLC have responded to the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ questionnaire on PSHE Education, which forms part of their curriculum reform Consultation. Please click here to see our response.
The Consultation was prompted by a nation-wide outcry that erupted when the Government announced that it was going to make sex and relationships education statutory so that it would be compulsory in all schools. The Government is proposing that children should be taught about sex and relationships from the age of 5 and about homosexual civil partnerships from the age of 7. CCFON, CARE, CI, the Family Education Trust and others responded to an independent review of PSHEE in December 2008, calling on the Government to maintain parental choice over the provision of sex and relationships education to their children. Please click here to see our response to the independent review. The very fact that the Consultation was issued, therefore, is a success for organisations such as ours.
Like the PSHEE syllabus, the PSHEE questionnaire covers a number of different topics, including the statutory or voluntary nature of sex and relationships education and who should be consulted in preparing a school’s sex and relationships education policy.
Please take a look at our response and support us by using it to send in your own by 24th July 2009. The questionnaire comprises 10 voting boxes with two spaces for additional comments. A response that simply places crosses in the boxes that we recommend will still be helpful to us.
Responses can be submitted by post or e-mail. If you wish to download the questionnaire in Word format, please click here; in PDF format, click here.
Fiinally, if you wish to access the background documents, click here.