Despite an unprecedented volume of representations from the public on the government’s Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) bill, the House of Lords voted to approve the legislation on 24 April.
Lord Hodgson, a member of the Scrutiny Committee said: ‘In all the years I have served…there has never been [such a] volume of outside representation.’ And while he said he didn’t want to ‘ride roughshod’ over the serious concerns of the more than 400 respondents, that is seemingly what has occurred.
Certainly, Lord Curry thought parents were being undermined and that teachers may have to contradict their own beliefs as they taught the materials.
