If you are a parent, grandparent, or carer in Brighton & Hove with concerns about…
- the role of third-party providers such as Allsorts Youth Project delivering PSHE/RSE in our local schools;
- the content of school delivered PSHE/RSE such as denying scientific fact that there are only two sexes (male and female) and suggesting there are multiple genders;
- or you are concerned about situations that have occurred in your child’s school e.g.,
- giving a child detention for “misgendering”,
- compelling children to accept gender ideology,
- teachers changing the names and pronouns of pupils…
please write to your Headteacher and Chair of Governors raising concerns.
The Headteacher’s email address should be publicly available to all parents. You can reach the Chair of Governors by sending your complaint to the Secretary of the Full Governing Body. The Secretary’s email address should always be published on the school website in the section about the Governing Body.
Copy your complaint to Ofsted at these two email addresses:
CorrespondenceTeam@ofsted.gov.uk
CASenquiries@ofsted.gov.uk
If you are not a parent or carer of school aged children, you can write to your local ward councillor. You might want to reference this article in The Sunday Times on 25th June 2023:
Find your councillor: https://democracy.brighton-hove.gov.uk/mgFindMember.aspx
In your own words and using your own experiences you might want to ask your councillors about the following:
- Ask your councillors to confirm if this article or any case like it (pertaining to social and/or medical transition of children under the ag of 18) is live in the complaints systems of Brighton and Hove City Council or schools within the City.
- Ask them if they know what concerns from parents or formal complaints have been raised in each of the schools in Brighton and Hove over the last two years.
- Ask your councillors if they support all 9 characteristics of the Equality Act, including philosophical belief (s10 of the Act) and therefore support those who may wish to hold the belief that sex is biological and immutable as set out in recent case law (Forstater, Bailey, Fahmy and LGB Alliance).
- Ask them if they have read the Interim Cass Review and NHS Service Specification for Children with Gender Dysphoria both of which clearly state that social transition is not a neutral act it is a significant psychological intervention. What steps are being taken by the council to ensure its own Trans Inclusion Schools Toolkit is fully compliant with these national policies and what steps are they taking to ensure that the material provided by any third-party provider of PSHE/RSE in schools, such as Allsorts Youth Project, is fully compliant with these national policies.