RSE Consultation Help and Advice

RESPOND ONLINE

The Department of Education RSE consultation for schools and parents is now available to respond to and we would encourage everyone to do so by clicking on the Department of Education webshot below.

You don't have to put your name, and you don't have to write any lengthy response, though we would highly recommend you do so.

The consultation will close at 17:00 on 24th November 2023. Please take the time to respond.

Suggested Responses

QUESTION 1

DISAGREE

Please respond in your own words, you can use the guidance below for advice.

QUESTION 2

AGREE

Please respond in your own words, you can use the guidance below for advice.

QUESTION 3

DISAGREE

Please respond in your own words, you can use the guidance below for advice.

QUESTION 4

AGREE

Please respond in your own words, you can use the guidance below for advice.

RESPOND BY POST

We have created a form to download and print out so you can respond by post to the consultation. Community groups, parents groups and churches can use this 4 page response form to printout at their RSE Consultation Workshops.

RSE CONSULTATION RESPONSE FORM.pdf

Suggested Responses

QUESTION 1

DISAGREE

Please respond in your own words, you can use the guidance below for advice.

QUESTION 2

AGREE

Please respond in your own words, you can use the guidance below for advice.

QUESTION 3

DISAGREE

Please respond in your own words, you can use the guidance below for advice.

QUESTION 4

AGREE

Please respond in your own words, you can use the guidance below for advice.

RSE CONSULTATION GUIDANCE

The Government and Morals Committee of the FP Church have issued excellent guidance on responding to the RSE consultation and we would highly recommend everyone to read it or print out.

RESPONSE-TO-THE-CONSULTATION-ON-CHANGES-TO-RELATIONSHIP-AND-SEXUALITY-EDUCATION-RSE-1.pdf

SOME THOUGHTS

The consultation does NOT give opportunity to discuss the content of the curriculum, whether that is the promotion of gender ideology, abortion as a health "service", or contraception.
By teaching these controversial topics, the Government, via the Department of Education, is imposing their moral values on your children.
There is no provision in the legislation for teachers to opt out of teaching abortion or contraception.
The UN CEDAW Report and the NI Human Rights Commission Report are completely immoral in promoting this content to children, openly criticising schools for promoting abstinence and the value of a human life.
RSE replaces the moral teaching of parents with the radical ideology of the day, contravening Section 76 of the N.I Act 1998, and The Human Rights Act 1998 Part II Article 2.
It is the parents' fundamental human rights to educate their children and teach or have them taught according to their own ethos and moral values.
Children up to the age of 16, are legally seen as the property of their parents and should not be able to override the decisions of parents, and all Human Rights laws reinforce that.
Abortion, the taking of a human life, can never be taught in a morally neutral way.
An opt-out is not an acceptable option for parents as the topics are to be included throughout the curriculum and children will talk to each other about the content anyway.
How can gender ideology where a boy can transition to a girl or vice versa be taught in a "scientifically accurate" way? This is dangerous to children's development and has led to many thousands of children being harmed across the world.
In the consultation booklet it discusses, for the first time, changes to the minimum order content with RSE topics to include, but NOT LIMITED TO:
- - Consent
  - Violence against women and girls
  - Domestic abuse
  - Healthy and Respectful Sexual Relationships
  - Marriage
  - LQBTQ+ issues
  - Abstinence
  - Menstrual health and wellbeing
  - Social Media and Online safety
- Parents should have access to ALL teaching materials from schools and all third party providers, on request, and copyright or commercial legal restrictions should NOT override the rights of parents.