Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans her Department has to engage with parents in its relationships, sex and health education public consultation review; and if she will make a statement.

The first phase of the review of the RSHE statutory guidance started in March 2023. All parents will have an opportunity to present their views as part of the public consultation on revised guidance due to be launched in autumn 2023.

In developing revised guidance for consultation, the Department have asked a range of stakeholders including a number of groups representing parents, to share evidence about areas of the guidance they would like to see strengthened.

Parents have also been invited to contribute their views directly in roundtables with ministers focusing on key topics such as suicide prevention and RSHE teaching materials.