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Debate between Nick Gibb and Rosie Duffield
Monday 29th January 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alex Norris Portrait Alex Norris (Nottingham North) (Lab/Co-op)
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3. What steps his Department is taking to ensure that all schools teach awareness of LGBT issues in an age-appropriate manner.

Rosie Duffield Portrait Rosie Duffield (Canterbury) (Lab)
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12. What steps his Department is taking to ensure that all schools teach awareness of LGBT issues in an age-appropriate manner.

Nick Gibb Portrait The Minister for School Standards (Nick Gibb)
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Schools can teach about LGBT issues within the curriculum and they must comply with the Equality Act 2010. We have established a £3 million programme to prevent and address homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying, and we are making relationships education and relationships and sex education compulsory and engaging thoroughly with stakeholders to inform the design and content of the curriculum in those subjects, ensuring that they are both high quality and age appropriate.

Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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I can give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. We are clear that the new subjects should ensure that young people learn that there are different types of relationships. Schools should ensure therefore that RSE is inclusive and meets the needs of all young people.

Rosie Duffield Portrait Rosie Duffield
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Can the Minister provide detail of how schools will be assessed to ensure that they are providing LGBT-inclusive relationship and sex education lessons, and what benchmark will be used to measure this?

Nick Gibb Portrait Nick Gibb
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These are the issues on which we are engaging with subject experts at the moment. We have issued a wide call for evidence from parents, pupils, teachers and young people, and we will assess that call for evidence before we issue further guidance on the matter. There will be a full debate on the regulations in this House when we draft those regulations.