Schools in England urgently need transgender guidance, says children’s tsar

Headteachers have described the delay in publishing the advice as ‘frustrating’, forcing schools to form their own policies. Photograph: redsnapper/Alamy

Schools and teachers urgently need ministers to publish long-delayed transgender guidance to ensure that pupils are treated with consistency and fairness, the children’s commissioner for England has said.

Rachel de Souza said the guidance, which Rishi Sunak had promised to publish earlier this summer, should be issued as soon as possible, based on her conversations with parents, children and school leaders in England.