Motion or amendment: Relationships and Sexuality Education - Amendment 2

Motion or amendment by Ms Cheryl Brownlee on .

MLA
Ms Cheryl Brownlee
Party at the time
Democratic Unionist Party
Date
18 April 2024
Type
Motion or amendment
Business
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Relationships and Sexuality Education”
Heading
Relationships and Sexuality Education - Amendment 2
Assembly identifier
Document 397905

Text

Relationships and Sexuality Education - Amendment 2

Leave out all after ‘value’ and insert:

‘of inclusive, high-quality, evidence-based and age-appropriate Relationships and Sexuality Education as a means of empowering and preparing our children and young people for life; acknowledges that teachers and school staff must have the support, training and resources they require to feel confident in delivering Relationships and Sexuality Education in schools; stresses that there should be no impediment to teachers and pupils discussing, and considering, moral, ethical and spiritual issues within Relationships and Sexual Education; further recognises that Relationships and Sexuality Education has a vital role to play in affirming human dignity, promoting healthy relationships and tackling violence against women and girls; and calls on the Minister of Education to bring forward a plan which enshrines the right of schools to develop, and deliver, teaching in keeping with their ethos, which respects the role of parents and which guarantees a meaningful role for children and young people in the development of inclusive, high-quality, evidence-based, and age-appropriate Relationships and Sexuality Education.’

173 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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