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Defining Conversion Practices: Getting the Boundary Right
New Protect and Teach evidence and consultation briefing The Partnership of Counselling and Psychotherapy Bodies (PCPB) is consulting on a proposed definition of conversion practices and new Good Practice Principles for working with Gender, Sexuality…
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Ofsted Is Changing Children’s Social Care Inspections: What You Need to Know and How to Respond
Ofsted is consulting on significant changes to the way it inspects children’s social care in England. Protect and Teach has reviewed the proposals through a safeguarding lens: will the changes make it easier to identify…
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Status Without Substance? Early Years QTS, Safeguarding and Developmental Science
Protect & Teach CIC – briefing for parents, governors, designated safeguarding leads, early years practitioners and MPs (England Only) The DfE consultation Shaping the future of early years teaching closes at 23:59 on 24 September…
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Why the Evidence Does Not Support the Draft Conversion Practices Bill
Protect and Teach CIC has published a 769-page evidence and legal review of the Draft Conversion Practices Bill (England and Wales), together with an eight-page Policy Evidence Briefing designed to make the principal findings accessible…
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Who Watches Children Change? The NSPCC’s Removal of a Basic Safeguarding Precaution
The NSPCC has removed its previous recommendation that children should, wherever possible, be supervised while changing by adults of the same sex. This article principally examines the legal and safeguarding position in schools in England.…
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Template Letter: Parent/Carer Request for Information and Safeguarding Review: Changing-Room Supervision – England
Parents and carers do not need to wait until a child reports an incident before asking how their school protects pupils’ safety, privacy and dignity while they are changing. This England-specific template helps parents ask…
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Protect and Teach Supports Open Letter Opposing the Draft Conversion Practices Bill
Protect and Teach CIC has added its support to an open letter coordinated by LGB Alliance calling on the Government to reject the Draft Conversion Practices Bill. The letter brings together parents, grandparents, carers and…
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Protect and Teach Website Is Now Live
21 August 2026 Today, Protect and Teach is pleased to announce the launch of our new website. Protect and Teach exists to contribute to informed discussion and evidence-based debate about education, safeguarding, children’s rights and…
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When Activism Becomes Education: A Critical Review of Freirean Pedagogy and Youth Climate Activism
Why teaching children to think critically is not the same as teaching them to become activists Protect and Teach Paper Analysis Introduction A recent paper published in the British Educational Research Journal, “The purpose of…
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Clarifying the DfE’s RSHE and KCSIE updates: effective 1st September 2026
There has been considerable discussion about the new requirements for schools to address misogyny, online misogynistic content, incel culture, pornography, consent and healthy relationships, with particular attention to violence against women and girls (VAWG). Some…