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<p>Schools are responsible for what is taught in Relationship, Health and Sex Education
(RHSE) lessons, including anything taught by external providers. Schools should agree
reasonable requests from parents to view curriculum materials. We would expect schools
to avoid entering into any agreement that seeks to prevent them from ensuring parents
can be made properly aware of the materials that are being used to teach their children.
The department will soon be writing to schools to clarify this.</p><p>Regarding Government
providing advice on the application of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000,
local authorities and schools are public authorities in their own right for the purposes
of the FOIA. This means that they must make their own decisions on how they should
respond to specific FOIs they receive, including any from parents requesting access
to information on Relationships and Sex Education curricula delivered by external
contractors and providers. Accordingly, the department does not advise schools or
local authorities on the responses that they should provide to such requests.</p><p>The
Information Commissioner’s Office makes guidance on the application of the FOIA available
to all public authorities. This guidance is available at: <a href="https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-freedom-of-information/"
target="_blank">https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-freedom-of-information/</a>.</p>
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