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Every single school in Britain will be given support on teaching about LGBT relationships after lessons sparked protests from parents, Education Secretary says 

Jemma Carr – Mail Online Aug 30, 2019

Every single school is to get support on teaching about LGBT relationships after lessons sparked outrage from parents.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said headteachers should be ‘able to teach about Britain as it is today’.

Before the summer holidays, high-profile protesters gathered outside primary schools in Birmingham and Nottingham with some claiming teaching about LGBT relationships was ‘over-emphasising a gay ethos’.

Mr Williamson added the law has been ‘set out quite clearly’ ahead of its mandatory introduction in September 2020.

The Department for Education (DfE) released guidance encouraging schools to adopt the new curriculum on relationships education when schools return from the Summer holidays in September, before the law is officially in place.

But Mr Williamson said he had no plans to visit the headteacher of Birmingham’s Anderton Park Primary School, Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, who has previously told of being subjected to abuse during weeks of protests outside her school.

Parents protested outside Nottingham’s Fernwood Primary School. Click to enlarge

She called in June for Mr Williamson’s predecessor, Damian Hinds, to visit and discuss the current policy on relationships and LGBT education in schools.

Speaking at the time, she said: ‘The importance of this goes beyond Anderton Park, it goes beyond protests on my pavements – it’s a British law issue.’

Mr Hinds did meet union officials and officers from Birmingham City Council to discuss the issue, and it is understood that Ms Hewitt-Clarkson has not asked Mr Williamson to meet her.

Both Anderton Park and Parkfield Community School in Birmingham were the scenes of weeks of noisy protest.

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