Hearings
England & Wales
22 Dec 2022 [2022] EWHC 3331 (Admin); [2023] PTSR 901; [2023] WLR(D) 26, KBD (Steyn J)
R (Isherwood) v Welsh Ministers
Subject Matter
EDUCATION — Mandatory teaching — Relationships and sexuality education — Welsh Ministers issuing statutory code and guidance following legislation introducing mandatory relationships and sexuality education in maintained schools in Wales — Whether code and guidance unlawful in failing to provide for right of excusal enabling parents to withdraw children from RSE lessons — Whether parents having common law right of excusal — Whether legislation abrogating former statutory right of excusal — Whether code and guidance breaching Convention right to education — Education Act 1996 (c 56), ss 405, 444 — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt II, art 2 — Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (asc 4), ss 3, 8(1), 10, 11, 24, 27, 29, 71(1)
[2022] EWHC 3331 (Admin); [2023] PTSR 901; [2023] WLR(D) 26, KBD
Commentary
Law & Religion UK
Parental rights and “relationships and sexuality education” in Wales”: R (Isherwood)
Case comment
Local Government Lawyer
Rights of excusal from relationships and sexuality education
Case comment