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More prescriptive guidance forcing primary heads to teach about LGBT relationships would not have prevented protests outside schools in Birmingham, the
schools minister has said. Nick Gibb was speaking as some MPs criticised the government's response to protests.
Leaders of the multi-academy trust that runs a Birmingham primary school at the centre of the anti-LGBT backlash have hit out at the Department for Education
over its lack of clarity on LGBT-inclusive teaching.
The government has been accused by councils of watering down plans to improve oversight of the growing number of school-aged children who are educated at
home in England. Religion is often a significant reason behind parents' decision to home school their children.
A ruling that amateur fighters in Wales must be clean shaven will be overturned, Welsh Boxing has announced, amid claims that it discriminated against Sikhs.
Ofsted penalises schools that refuse to teach about LGBT people, but seems to ignore other schools that teach same-sex relationships are morally wrong. Megan
Manson says this double standard needs to end.
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