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Summary Background This report draws on in-depth interviews with 30 mental-health professionals, many with long experience of working with gender-distressed and trans-identifying clients, regarding the government's draft Conversion Practices Bill, which w

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After Sex Matters wrote to complain, the chief executive of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Chris Sherwood, has written to us saying the charity has revised its schools briefing on safeguarding considerations in cha

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Sex Matters recently challenged the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in the High Court over Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) legal guidance on deception as to sex. Deceiving a partner about biological sex can mean there is no legally valid consent. Bu

Over the past 15 years, a misunderstanding of the Equality Act 2010 has been allowed to undermine safeguarding in schools. Charities have played a key role. When Stonewall was established in 1989, it was one of a handful of civil-society organisations foc

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is the country's best-known child-protection charity, and the only one with statutory powers. The least that schools using guidance it produces should be able to expect is that it is l

As the autumn term begins, Maya Forstater and Fiona McAnena discuss statutory safeguarding guidance, as well as draft technical guidance on equality law for schools from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). Disappointingly, the EHRC's guidance

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is consulting on new technical guidance for schools in England, Scotland and Wales about how the Equality Act 2010 applies. The deadline for responses is Wednesday 30th September. This is an update of guidan