WHO WE ARE

Who we are, our aims and activities and how we can help you

We are parents committed to working with education providers and policy makers to ensure children’s experience at school meets the requirements of relevant legislation and government guidance. 

We share concerns about inaccurate, inappropriate curriculum content and inadequate school policies that negatively affect children’s healthy development, their safety, and education.

We object to beliefs about gender identity influencing school procedures and undermining safeguarding, equalities legislation, fairness, science and reason.

We recognise the dangers to children of promoting ideas about gender identity as fact, from nursery upward, across the curriculum and school culture. 

We support parents challenging instances of poor provision and practice in schools; and we use evidence from different settings across the country to campaign and lobby for better monitoring, guidance, training and regulation.

We are ‘critical friends’ to the education sector just as governors are critical friends to their schools. We highlight shortcomings, press for necessary change, and champion successes.

Our objectives are to:

  • offer a peer-based support network for parents facing gender identity ideology in their children’s schools
  • assist existing groups aligned with our aims (Safe Schools Alliance, Transgender Trend, Sex Matters) and signpost to their services 
  • provide information for the media
  • conduct research 
  • lobby elected representatives with responsibilities for education, and hold to account the regulatory bodies who monitor them

Moving beyond a school-by-school approach: 

  • The promotion of gender identity in schools is systemic and requires a systemic response
  • The governmental and institutional reaction to ideological teaching and policy failures in school, including breaches of safeguarding practice, is unacceptable
  • There is widespread failure to acknowledge the scale of the problem and no apparent accountability or appetite for addressing it

 

In response to these problems we:

–  Advocate for monitoring and regulation of external providers of content for PSHE and RSE (and teacher training and governor training)

–  Write to key political representatives involved in education (Ministers, Shadow Ministers, spokespeople, Lords, Select Committees, Local Authority officers, Councillors, Academy Trusts, Ofsted)

– Lobby organisations tasked with regulating, scrutinising and safeguarding education and equalities: Department for Education, Ofsted, Ofqual, EHRC 

– Coordinate and work with with other organisations and campaigns 

– Champion good practice where we find it

We offer you support to challenge policies and curriculum informed by gender identity ideology:

–  We can help with letter writing and identifying who to approach to inform and lobby about your concerns (senior leadership in schools, governing bodies, Academy Trusts, Local Authority and beyond)

–  We identify the advice, guidance and legislation that schools should be following to improve their teaching and the relevant policies within the existing statutory framework

–  We highlight and explain to schools the pastoral and school monitoring implications of non-compliance with this framework

We help parents with their questions to schools:

  • We can comment on draft letters and offer advice on best next steps
  • We have sample letters written by group members we can share covering toilets, RSE curriculum, teaching of gender identity, RSE materials 
  • We have information on copyright if your school is refusing you access to materials 
  • We have members with expertise and experience of meeting with governors
  • We can signpost to specific advice about transgender policies at school
  • We can signpost to media contacts to gain coverage in mainstream media (they will need to name the school and see supporting evidence of what is happening but can keep your name anonymous)

 

If you email us with a brief description of the issue you are facing we will try to suggest a course of action and put you in touch with other parents or representatives in your area.

We are all unpaid volunteers       

We are not affiliated to any particular political party or religion

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