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Relationships and sex education: handling complaints from parents
You may continue to receive complaints from some parents about changes to your school's RSE curriculum after you've consulted on it. Learn when it's your job to step in and how to handle the most common complaints confidently.
Contents
- How the governing board gets involved
- The complaints process
- 1. Reassure parents that their views were respected during the consultation period
- 2. Explain that parts of the RSE curriculum are mandatory
- 3. Explain parents' rights to withdraw their child from parts of the RSE curriculum
- 4. Handle faith-based or cultural objections sensitively but firmly
- 5. Direct parents to resources from the DfE
- 6. Assure parents that you'll maintain oversight
- Recognise when to end the conversation
Also in this topic: The school curriculum
- Careers guidance: statutory requirements
- Curriculum jargon buster
- Curriculum monitoring: role of the local governing body
- Curriculum reports: how to get the information you need
- Curriculum requirements: maintained primary schools
- Curriculum requirements: maintained secondary schools
- Curriculum requirements: primary academies
- Curriculum requirements: secondary academies
- Governors' role in monitoring physical education
- Promoting British values in the curriculum
- Relationships and health education: new requirements from 2020 (primary)
- Relationships and sex education is changing: governors’ role
- Relationships and sex education: new requirements from 2020 (secondary)
- School trips and educational visits
- Sex and relationship education (SRE)
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