Primary schools are “strongly encouraged” to include families with same-sex parents when they tell children about different types of family. But Baroness Berridge explained, “that is clearly a move from mandatory to permissive language”.
Ofsted has been accused by Jewish organisations of going beyond its remit in the past year by criticising Charedi primary schools for excluding LGBT issues.
Apart from the new RSE policy, new government guidelines on equality for independent schools issued last year said they could decide when certain topics were “age appropriate”.
Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman, questioned by MPs at the educational select committee last month on whether it had departed from DfE guidance, said, “To my knowledge, we haven’t.”
