Parents opposed to Wales’ new Relationships and Sexuality Education starting next term have taken further High Court action to allow them to withdraw their own children from the classes. Their legal team has filed an injunction to stop their children being given RSE lessons in primary schools until a review is heard.
The new curriculum for schools in Wales, which begins in September 2022, means parents will no longer be able to remove their children from sex education classes. The Welsh Government says RSE will be age appropriate. Campaigners say it is wrong to discuss issues like gender and sexuality with the youngest children.
In May the campaign group Public Child Protection Wales, won a High Court victory when a judge ruled the Welsh Government’s RSE policy must be tested in the courts and a judicial review will be heard later this year. That review has not been held yet and with RSE lessons due to begin next month the campaign’s barrister Paul Diamond has been back to the High Court to seek an injunction to stop them until the review.
