![]() ![]() The new mandatory element also means that every child, aged 3- 16, must take part. It is embedded into every lesson across the curriculum. She said: “This new curriculum is not like the stand-alone RSE lessons that pupils and parents are used to. Kim Isherwood, a parent of two boys aged 13-17, from Port Talbot, and one of the claimants, said most parents are oblivious to the new changes. Parents also claim that their government has misled them, since the original RSE draft in February of 2019 gave a hint that parental opt-out would be retracted at a later date.Ĭampaigners, include parents of gay and lesbian children, stress they are not against safeguarding or age-appropriate biology being taught. Claimants representing over 5,000 parents and grandparents in Wales are taking the Welsh Government to the High Court in an attempt to remove Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) from the mandatory element of the The Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 which takes effect this September.Ĭampaigners say that because of the mandatory element of RSE, children as young as three will be taught about sensitive and arguably inappropriate topics such as gender ideology, and that parents are being disenfranchised by being denied their right to remove their child from sex education.
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