The chief inspector of Ofsted, Amanda Spielman, has attempted to allay concerns over relationships and sex education by saying there were only “limited expectations” about teaching LGBT awareness in schools.
Especially in the case of young children, it did not “necessarily go any further than saying there are some families with two mummies or two daddies,” she said.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Sunday programme, she acknowledged there were some conservative religious schools that found difficulty complying with equality guidelines – “a bit more than a handful, but not a lot”.
But as part of relationships education, schools should make children aware of different family set-ups, she said.
