Warwick’s bubble bursts?

en staff  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 May 2020
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Warwick’s bubble bursts?

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In April, Warwickshire announced it had abandoned the explicit primary curriculum All About Me (AAM) after it was challenged by parents and Christian organisations, and saw its content picked over by the national media.

Cabinet meeting minutes for Warwickshire showed that AAM had undergone an independent review by the Sex Education Forum.* Interestingly, the review was broadly accepting of the curriculum, but noted that some parts introduced concepts at too young an age. Many critics pointed out that AAM hadn’t been formulated by anyone with a teaching qualification. Its author, ‘sex education consultant’ Jonny Hunt, has no background in education but publishes his sex-positive curriculum through his website ‘Going Off The Rails’.

The curriculum contained topics that many schools adopted as part of the 2020 Sex Education Curriculum for primary schools, but which were not part of the government guidelines. They came instead from a UNESCO document to which the review referred. en highlighted some of these curriculum areas (en November 2019, January 2020), showing them to be safeguarding red flags, even perhaps leaving children open to abuse.

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