On 26–27 July 2025 Tanya Carter, delivered a powerful and urgent speech at the WDI International Conference (in London and online), drawing attention to the escalating safeguarding failures in UK schools. Her talk offered a sobering account of how gender identity ideology, inappropriate RSHE materials, and institutional denial have compromised child protection - especially for girls.
Meeting with the Department for Education
This month we were invited to a meeting with the Department for Education in London to discuss their draft guidance for schools on gender questioning children and the LGBT content in the draft RSHE guidance. The previous government’s consultation on gender questioning children closed in March 2024, and the consultation on revised relationships, sex and … Continue reading Meeting with the Department for Education
Dismantling Barriers to Effective Safeguarding
This article is in response to the 2023 paper ‘Men Changing Nappies: Dismantling a key barrier to gender-diversifying the early years workforce,’ (hereafter named ‘Dismantling Barriers’) by Joann Wilkinson and Jo Warin, both of the University of Manchester, and Jeremy Davies, of The Fatherhood Institute, UK. In this paper the authors note the continuing low … Continue reading Dismantling Barriers to Effective Safeguarding
Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls
On Monday 12th February, Tanya Carter, Safe Schools Alliance spokeswoman, attended a meeting hosted by Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls (@UNSRVAW) as part of her UK and NI visit. We joined other groups that advocate for the rights and protections of women and children. We wanted to share … Continue reading Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls
Academic experiments and child safeguarding
We have written an open letter to Professor Arif Ahmed, Director for Freedom of Speech and Academic Freedom at the Office for Students, to raise concerns relating to the influence of experimental academic discourse on public policy. You can read this below. Dear Professor Ahmed, Congratulations on your appointment as Director for Freedom of Speech … Continue reading Academic experiments and child safeguarding
Petition: Do not allow people to have acquired gender listed as sex on Government ID
We wholeheartedly support the petition to reform arrangements for issuing Government IDs such as passports and driving licenses - a person's so called acquired gender should never be listed as their sex. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637290 We agree that "Issuing men with identity documents saying they are women poses #safeguarding issues.” There are serious risks here for the … Continue reading Petition: Do not allow people to have acquired gender listed as sex on Government ID
Evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee
On Wednesday 10th May the Women and Equalities Select Committee held an evidence session on the Government’s Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) review, and invited Safe Schools Alliance UK to participate. The aim of the session was "to explore the RSHE review and how it is being conducted, what RSHE should include, how it … Continue reading Evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee
Pushing boundaries: ‘Sexuality education’ from UNESCO and WHO
We are here publishing an independent review of two standards documents produced by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). These standards underpin the global initiative for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), currently promoted by UNESCO’s ‘Foundation for Life and Love Campaign.’ Download Comprehensive Sexuality Education - A … Continue reading Pushing boundaries: ‘Sexuality education’ from UNESCO and WHO
Bad RSE in schools: where is the evidence?
In the wake of the dossier compiled by Miriam Cates MP on unsuitable Relationships and Sex Education delivered by unaccountable external providers, there is now a long-overdue focus on the quality of RSE provision in schools. In its recent report on relationships and sex education providers, The Times quoted our spokeswoman Tanya Carter, who noted … Continue reading Bad RSE in schools: where is the evidence?
Sex Ed: An Inclusive Teenage Guide to Sex and Relationships
Further to our review of the School of Sexuality Education’s (SoSE’s) academic paper, Play Doh Vulvas and Felt Tip Dick Pics, we review here SoSE's book: Sex Ed: An Inclusive Teenage Guide to Sex and Relationships. The publisher’s aim was to give a copy of this book to every single secondary school in the country. Schools usually welcome … Continue reading Sex Ed: An Inclusive Teenage Guide to Sex and Relationships