Warwickshire Council: going off the rails

en staff  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Nov 2019
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Warning, this article contains explicit sexual references.

Warwickshire County Council (WCC) refused to answer questions from en in October about their primary school sex education curriculum, which (according to Warwickshire’s own published advice) could result in safeguarding problems.

After numerous complaints, the council said it was reviewing some information on its ‘Respect Yourself’ website. As en went to press, this seems to have been extended to the widely-criticised primary curriculum ‘All About Me’ (AAM). These lessons contain explicit teaching on ‘self-stimulation’ and penetrative sex to children as young as five.1

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