The Latest Breaking News from Miriam Cates

Government to review sex education amid concerns about ‘inappropriate’ lessons

It comes after a Conservative MP said pupils were being subjected to ‘extreme, sexualising and inaccurate’ content in class.

The Independent UK · Mar 8, 2023

Labour vows to hand ‘weak’ Rishi Sunak first defeat over Online Safety Bill

Exclusive: PM failed to ‘read the room’ over criminal penalities for social media giants, says shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell – as Labour plans to vote with Tory rebels

The Independent UK · Jan 15, 2023

Keegan calls for ‘big dose of transparency’ when teaching contested issues

Gillian Keegan says, ‘common sense’ is needed when it comes to sharing classroom materials and deciding what is ‘age appropriate’.

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2022

'Horrendous' sex education classes for young pupils to be investigated by children's tsar

Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza expressed alarm after a Tory MP told her of concerns from constituents, including a 9-year-old who had been taught about rape

Daily Mirror · Jul 5, 2022

Children’s commissioner shocked by ‘horrendous’ sex education materials

Dame Rachel de Souza said she would be looking into the teaching of relationships and sex education in schools.

The Independent UK · Jul 5, 2022

Tory MP criticises ‘extreme’ sex education material in schools

Miriam Cates says Government guidance has unwittingly ‘opened the floodgates’ to extreme materials.

The Independent UK · Jun 30, 2022

SNP MP hits back at Tory claim non-binary people are more likely to be autistic

The exchange came as MPs debated a petition which called for non-binary people to be given legal status in the UK

The National (Scotland) · May 23, 2022