good evening a just a quick column before bedtime
i found this and thought it appaling and to be honest i urge you to follow the link and read the traffic light behavioural tool printed it makes unbelieveable reading.
Sex between 13-year-olds is 'safe and healthy' behaviour, according to controversial guidance offered to schools to teach youngsters about relationships.
Family campaigners warned teachers were being urged to encourage behaviour which was against the law, while MPs said youngsters should be told that under-age sex is 'harmful' and 'dangerous'.
The 'Traffic Light Tool' produced as part of sex and relationship education lessons also suggested masturbation and 'consensual kissing' was a 'Green behaviour' for child as young as nine.
Education select committee chairman Graham Stuart warned youngsters should be told that under-age sex is 'dangerous' while Sarah Carter, of the Family Education Trust, said that sometimes what is taught in school sex and relationship lessons is against the law
Recently-published supplementary guidance on sex and relationship education (SRE) for schools included a link to the 'Traffic Light Tool' from sexual health and advice service Brook.
The tool on sexual behaviours, which is available online, is meant to help professionals assess whether children and young people's sexual behaviours are healthy or unhealthy.
It sets out green, amber and red 'behaviours' for different age groups.
under the 13-17 age group, it lists a number of green behaviours, which are described as behaviours that reflect 'safe and healthy sexual development' displayed between children and young people of similar age and developmental ability and 'reflective of natural curiosity, experimentation, consensual activities and positive choices'.
The approved list of behaviour for 13-17-year-olds includes 'having sexual or non-sexual relationships', 'sexual activity including hugging, kissing, holding hands' and 'consenting oral and/or penetrative sex with others of the same or opposite gender who are of similar age and developmental ability'.
Sarah Carter, of the Family Education Trust, sounded the alarm about the guidance, warning that sometimes what is taught in school sex and relationship lessons is against the law.
The Brook 'Traffic Light Tool' states that for children as yoiung as 13 'green behaviour' includes 'consenting oral and/or penetrative sex'
The Brook 'Traffic Light Tool' states that for children as yoiung as 13 'green behaviour' includes 'consenting oral and/or penetrative sex'
She told the Commons education select committee, how the Brook's tool 'states that young people who are consensually sexually active from the age of 13, this is normal behaviour and development, whereas actually the law states that young person should wait until they are 16 at least, never mind if they are ready or not'.
Miss Carter added: 'That's awfully unlawful behaviour, and so quite often what's taught in SRE isn't always lawful.'
The supplementary guidance on sex and relationships education (SRE), which contained links to a number of resources that could be used by schools, including the Traffic Light Tool, was developed and published by the PSHE Association with Brook and the Sex Education Forum.
Joe Hayman, chief executive of the PSHE Association, said he would look again at the links included in the guidance
Joe Hayman, chief executive of the PSHE Association, said he would look again at the links included in the guidance
Graham Stuart, the Labour MP who chairs the education committee, warned that critics might argue that to send out messages that 13-year-olds having sex together is part of growing up and 'not to send out a message that it's wrong, that it's harmful, it's dangerous, is in fact to almost to collude with something which we know is damaging to young people'.
Joe Hayman, chief executive of the PSHE Association, said that all the resources that the PSHE Association produces are clear about teaching about the law.
'I think the only challenge with dealing with these subjects, and this is why we need really well-trained teachers, is that we've got to deal with children's realities,' he told the committee.
Mr Hayman said: 'What I was saying was that it's really, really important that a dictatorial-from-the-front lesson on what one should and shouldn't do is less likely to have an impact and I think we've got to start from where children are, their reality.
'There's no one in our community who feels we should be trying to sexualise children, or any of those kinds of things.
'What we want is children to develop healthy and safe relationships and it's really important that teachers are provided with the necessary training in order to do that.'
Questioned further about Brook's Traffic Light Tool, Mr Hayman insisted it was difficult for him to be accountable for every piece of information linked to in the PSHE Association's supplementary guidance, which has many links within it. He agreed to write to the committee about the issue.
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i,ve read this and seen the traffic light tool yes hugging and a kiss is ok what small boy didnt kiss some girl in the playground or under the misletoe but the rest of it i find absolutely diabolical what right has these quangos to interfere in our childrens lives and spout this do gooder rubbish at them
and to promote 13 year old boys kissing 13 year old boys and the rest of it which i shall not go into on this column is just perverse.
how many of those who promote this are secret paedophiles and who are active members of or supporters of PIE i know theresa may is and tatchell has been trying to get the age of consent down for years .
and of course its certain labour mps who support this i suggest you visit the labour 25 website when you have finished here and you will see for yourself just how far into the rotten establishment this goes
saville wasnt the only one with fiends sorry friends in high places.
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sex between 13 year olds is fine .... the AA grumpy column
I thin k the sad fact of life Is that 13 year olds are having sex these days.
However, It Is the almost promotion of this which Is offensive. Even sexy underwear Is sold at a target audience of under 10's now In our shops.
I just believe that children should be kept as children for as long as possible but on the other hand, they must also be educated In such things as Aids, STD's etc, so It's a toughy.
My concern Is that when sex at 13 become's ' the norm '... ie between two 13 year old's, will that see a push for lowering the age of consent and which PIE advocate now?
So I think a balance Is needed. Education In schools but under no circumstances do we as a country accept sex with 13 year olds as acceptable or even Inevitable.
However, It Is the almost promotion of this which Is offensive. Even sexy underwear Is sold at a target audience of under 10's now In our shops.
I just believe that children should be kept as children for as long as possible but on the other hand, they must also be educated In such things as Aids, STD's etc, so It's a toughy.
My concern Is that when sex at 13 become's ' the norm '... ie between two 13 year old's, will that see a push for lowering the age of consent and which PIE advocate now?
So I think a balance Is needed. Education In schools but under no circumstances do we as a country accept sex with 13 year olds as acceptable or even Inevitable.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. R.L. Binyon
sex between 13 year olds is fine .... the AA grumpy column
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