Safe at School, a UK-wide parents’ advocacy organisation, has slammed plans by the Welsh Government to make relationships and sexuality education (RSE) compulsory.
Antonia Tully of the Safe at School campaign said: "Making relationships and sex education compulsory school subjects is a state-takeover of parenting. Parents in Wales will be placed in the same invidious position as parents in England; they will be powerless to protect their children against lessons with which they disagree. This amounts to massive state interference in family life.
"It is astounding that 87.5% of responses to the Welsh Government’s consultation opposed making relationships and sex compulsory and yet they are still railroading this through. The Welsh Government is copying Westminster showing little regard for parents and their inalienable right to bring up their children in line with their own values and beliefs about human relationships and sexuality."
The Safe at School campaign has criticised the Welsh Government statement that RSE would be "age and developmentally appropriate", saying that "it’s for parents to decide when their children are ready to hear about sexual matters. They know them best."
"The Welsh Government seems determined to trample over the rights of parents to bring up their children in line with their own values and best judgement. And it’s not just parents with a religious faith who will undermined. You don’t have to have a religious faith to want to protect your child against inappropriate and harmful teaching," said Mrs Tully.
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