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Petition update, 22 September 2009

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On 23rd October Jim Knight announced the Government’s decision to back the recommendations of ‘experts’ (the government appointed SRE Delivery Review Group) and make sex and relationship education a statutory requirement for children in England aged five and over. This hugely controversial decision was made without a general public consultation with parents and was as such wholly at variance with Gordon Brown’s commitment, on entering Number 10, to listen. It suggests that the Government does not trust parents and thinks it knows best. Not only have parents been excluded from the decision, but the effect of the decision to place SRE on the National Curriculum actually erodes the potential for input they currently enjoy with respect to the determination of the SRE curriculum in their child’s school. This petition calls on the Prime Minister to put the decision on hold until a full 12 week public consultation has been conducted on the question of whether or not sex education should be made a statutory, National Curriculum requirement for children aged five and over, so that parents – the primary stakeholders - can contribute to the debate

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• David Wilkinson
• Harold Rowdon
• Sanaa chamchoun
• Chris Halls
• Dr andrew king
• P. damary-Homan
• Paul Sealey
• John Green
• Dr. Peter May
• David Withers
• Gillian Exton
• Stephen Bazely
• Mike Halls
• maria king
• Michael Taylor
• Keith Stenner
• Joanna Lewis
• Brian Sage
• Hilda McMullin
• John Everett
• Andrew Oatridge
• Zsofia Oatridge
• Sarah Todd
• Mrs Shirley Jenkinson
• Jeffrey Greaves
• Anthony Ford
• John Miller
• Andrew Wilson
• Helen Hughes
• Sylvia Lipschutz
• T. Hartley
• Mark Barnes
• Richard Plumbridge
• Francisca Martinez
• Phil Harper
• D J Willis
• Catherine Dunn
• Dominic Bardill
• Dr Peter Davis
• Anna Read
• Ruth Bridcut
• Audrey Rayment
• Jane Finch
• Dr Hadley Skidmore
• Helen Cocks
• Sue Ball
• Matthew Francis
• Paul R Read
• naomi wilson
• frederick levett
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• Marie N Arnachellum
• Rosie Lyus
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• Gill Thumwood
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• David Butler
• Andrew Simmons
• Dr Matthew Swabey
• John Simmons
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• Nikki Boniface
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• Pamela Moss
• Margaret Fletcher
• Gwendolyn Young
• samantha harris
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• Lila Lamrani
• Adam Ben Salem
• nazeer white
• Mohamady El-Gaby
• Samera Hassan
• morium ali
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• Mohammad Ali
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• alerona denjagic
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• tania salmen
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• Neil Richardson
• Caroline Durant
• Meta Powell
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• shirin salatin
• maria pakzad
• Cythare Cooper
• Shivram Naibagkar
• Ruth Naibagkar
• Mrs Terisa Coxon
• Daniel Clifton
• shahieda souman
• seema khan
• Norman Hyde
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• Roland Gilmore
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• S Choudhury
• kerry moore
• John Annan
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• Norman Calvert
• Liam James Zamudio
• Sonia Bentley
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• Rachel Brooker
• J Rawbone
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• Paola Cottrell
• nicholas Kirby
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• john Twine
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• Patricia Partington
• serap magill
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• Yunus Emre Selamet
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• Andrew Cady
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• anne upton
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• Stuart Peniston
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• Alfredo Giangregorio
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• Arron Maytum

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