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BBC News
21 minutes ago
- BBC News
Children to be taught anti-misogyny in sex education classes
Recognising misogyny, the harms caused by so-called "deepfakes" and unhealthy attitudes towards consent will be taught in sex education classes under new government guidance for will be taught "how to identify and learn from positive male role models", according to parts of the final draft of the relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) guidance seen exclusively by the in England should also "proactively" engage with parents to make sure they are aware of what is being taught, the guidance will say. But plans to impose age limits on certain subject areas, proposed by the previous Conservative government just before last year's election, will not go ahead. That earlier draft guidance had suggested sex education should not be taught before Year 5, while topics like sexual harassment and pornography should not be taught before Year the government will outline areas that should be introduced in primary school and what students should learn about by the end of secondary school in the final draft of its guidance, due to be published later Department for Education (DfE) says it will mean children don't get taught things they are too young for, without assigning specific ages to each individual will have the right to view all of their school's RSHE curriculum materials, which the charity Parentkind has welcomed. Frank Young, from the charity, says it's important that teachers consult with parents first to understand what is age appropriate for their child "so that we put parents in the driving seat".The new guidance, which schools will take on from this autumn, will come into full legal force from September 2026. It will say primary schools must cover respectful relationships, boundaries, and the risks of sharing information and images it is expected to recommend that conception, birth and puberty is taught in Year 5 or Year 6 - but this is not school teachers may also decide to discuss the sharing of naked images or online sexual content if it is affecting pupils in the school, or if they are aware students have seen pornography, under the new guidance. By the end of secondary school, students should be taught how to keep themselves and others safe, including how to avoid sexually transmitted infections and unplanned in the secondary school curriculum are expected to include lessons on:The sexual norms endorsed by so-called "involuntary celibates" (incels) or online influencersAI-generated sexual imagery and deepfakesHow pornography links to misogynySexual ethics beyond consent and the awareness of power dynamics The guidance will advise secondary schools to work closely with mental health professionals on how to discuss suicide prevention in an age-appropriate Andy Airey, Mike Palmer and Tim Owen, the founders of Three Dads Walking who each lost a daughter to suicide, have welcomed its inclusion, saying it will "save lives".RSHE became compulsory in schools in England in pupils must take part in relationships education, which doesn't involve explaining the detail of different forms of sexual activity, but can cover sensitive topics such as sexual violence in order to keep children have the right to request that their child be withdrawn from some or all of sex education, but students can choose to opt back in from three terms before they turn 16. The government is expected to release its separate guidance for schools around children who are gender-questioning the RSHE guidance, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the behaviour and attitudes of boys and young men "is one of the challenges facing us today".Schools and parents have a vital role to play in "helping children identify positive role models and resist the manipulation too often used online to groom impressionable young minds," she added. At Benton Park School in Leeds, head teacher Nik Skilton says teachers have to be "really careful" when it comes to talking to students about inappropriate online content, so that they don't highlight something to young people that they aren't already being exposed to."But, on the flip side, we've also got to make sure that we are supporting young people to protect themselves," he Skilton says schools need some flexibility in how they approach these topics, because each school has different issues to deal RSHE guidance will encourage schools to build a more positive culture, making staff and pupils aware of the danger of stereotypes and prejudice. Benton Park School has reported a decrease in the number of students experiencing sexual harassment in school since it adopted a whole-school approach to tackling such one of the student ambassadors at the school, believes social media is fuelling sexism and sexual harassment because "they appear so much on everyone's pages, on their phones, that they think it's normalised".She says it has become a lot easier to "call it out" because of the skills the school has given Karman agrees, saying she now feels like she has a voice to say: "This is not okay".
Daily Mail
25 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
ICE memo reveals Trump's plan to scrap bond hearings to keep millions of illegal migrants locked up
Millions of migrants who entered the United States illegally will be forced to remain behind bars while their deportation proceedings continue for months or even years under a new Trump administration policy. Acting Director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd M. Lyons told agents in a July 8 memo obtained by the Washington Post that such migrants will no longer be eligible for a bond hearing and should be detained 'for the duration of their removal proceedings.' He revealed the Department of Homeland Security and Justice Department ' revisited its legal position on detention and release authorities', and determined that migrants 'may not be released from ICE custody.' This new policy reverses legal standards governing migrant detention that have been held for decades, said Tom Jawetz, a former homeland security official in the Biden administration, who called it 'a radical departure that could explode the detention population.' In the past, those who were marked for deportation have been able to request a bond hearing before a judge. If the judge were then to grant the migrant a bond, he or she could be released into society as their deportation proceedings continued in the courts. As of last year, the majority of the 7.6 million migrants on ICE's docket were released, the agency's annual report revealed. But under the new guidance, those migrants will be forced to remain in detention centers, where the agency is currently holding about 56,000 migrants each day. The capacity, though, is expected to nearly double under the recently-passed Big Beautiful Bill, which allocates $45 billion over the next four years to lock up migrants for civil deportation proceedings. The new policy will apply to any migrant who illegally crossed into the country at the southern border over the past few decades, including those who came in record numbers during the Biden administration. In rare circumstances, migrants may still be released on parole - but that decision must be made by immigration officers and not judges, according to the memo. The Trump administration is justifying the reversal of its policy by citing a provision of immigration law that states that migrants 'shall be detained' after their arrest, which the memo says should be taken as a 'prohibition on release.' But the provision has long been interpreted as to apply only to those who had recently crossed the border - and in the memo Lyons even notes that the shift in policy is 'likely to be litigated.' In the meantime, he encouraged ICE prosecutors 'to make alternative arguments in support of continued detention' as immigration lawyers say they have already seen migrants being denied bond hearings in more than a dozen immigration courts across the US. Those migrants now find themselves being deported to a 'third country' with as little as six hours notice if they have been given an opportunity to speak with an attorney. 'This is their way of putting in place nationwide a method of detaining even more people,' said Greg Chen, the senior director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association. 'It's requiring the detention of far more people without any real review of their individual circumstances.' Immigrant rights groups also argue that the new guidance deprives migrants of their due process rights, with immigration lawyer and former ICE chief counsel for the Dallas, Texas area noting that migrants 'could be held indefinitely until they're deported.' Other attorneys have likened the new policy to a position taken by several immigration judges in Tacoma, Washington, who have denied hearings to anyone who crossed the border illegally. The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle filed a suit in March challenging the judges' actions, arguing that their refusal to hold a bond hearing violated the migrants' rights, according to the Washington Post. Its original plaintiff Ramon Rodriguez Vazquez has lived in the state since 2009 and works as a farmer. He argued that his entire family are US citizens and he even owns the home where ICE officers arrested him in February for living in the country illegally. By April, a federal judge in Washington state found that he had 'no criminal history in the United States or anywhere else in the world' and ordered immigration officers to give him a proper bond hearing before a judge. The judge, though, denied him bond and he has since been deported back to Mexico. An attorney representing Rodriguez Vasquez now says the Trump administration's decision to deny migrants bond hearings is 'flagrantly unlawful' and argued that the policy 'is looking to supercharge detention beyond what it already is.' Those in favor of the policy change, however, have argued that it might discourage migrants from filing frivolous claims in hopes of being released into the community while their cases proceed through the backlogged immigration courts. 'Detention is absolutely the best way to approach this, if you can do it. It costs a lot of money, obviously,' said Mark Krikorian, the executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies. 'You're pretty much guaranteed to be able to remove the person if there's a negative finding, if he's in detention.' Migrants who have been convicted of murder or other serious crimes were already subject to mandatory detention without bond, and this year, the Republican-led Congress added theft-related crimes to the list of those that are not bond-eligible. Government officials have also reopened family detention centers that the Biden administration shuttered due to security concerns, and have reinforced other facilities like the controversial 'Alligator Alcatraz' detention center in the Florida Everglades. Democrat lawmakers who were granted access to tour the hastily-constructed facility have lamented the tough conditions migrants housed there will face. Florida Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz compared the facility to an internment camp and insisted 'there are really disturbing, vile conditions,' demanding the 'place be shut the hell down.' The lawmakers said more than 30 migrants were packed into cage-style cells with just three combination sink-toilets. Temperatures hovered in the mid-80s inside medical intake tents. Detainees have reported worms in the food, overflowing toilets, and 24-hour lockdowns in cages teeming with mosquitoes. But Kevin Guthrie, from the Florida division of Emergency Management, has since claimed the Democrats' were lying about the conditions of the facility to make it seem worse than it is.
BBC News
27 minutes ago
- BBC News
Site for two emergency homeless shelters secured, charity says
A site to house homeless shelter pods has been found, the chairman of a charity has said it had been aiming to provide immediate shelter for those with nowhere safe to sleep and no other housing States revealed there were more than 60 people on an urgent waiting list for housing - one islander recently said she was "extremely lucky to live in a garden shed" when she had nowhere else to Graham Merfield said the charity had secured a site to place two pods, subject to planning approval. He said: "We are now working through the planning process and the planning team are being very helpful in helping us through that. "We're anticipating our application will go in over the next weeks and our goal is to have the first two pods here for next winter, which would be September, October time." Mr Merfield said the sleeping pods had a bed, a chemical toilet, a charging point but no plumbing and were "for emergency use only" to house one person at a said: "Those pods are really intended for the people who are really in desperate need of accommodation. They're not intended to be temporary accommodation."Our longer term goal is to build a community of modular homes to address the need for temporary accommodation."The charity said it still aimed to provide modular homes, or "tiny homes", which would have a sitting area, bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and plumbing. 'Cautiously optimistic' Following the recent Guernsey general election, the new president of the island's housing committee, Deputy Steve Williams, said he wanted to get spades in the ground and hundreds of homes under construction within his first Merfield said the charity were "cautiously optimistic" by what had been promised so said: "We've already had some positive dialogue with some of the new deputies and we're looking forward to meeting with the new housing committee under Steve Williams' leadership. "I think having the responsibility for housing under one committee rather than spread across numerous committees should bring what I think they're terming a 'laser focus' onto the housing issue."Clearly, we need see what they can do both in the short term and the longer term to address the urgent needs and the longer-term needs of more affordable accommodation in the community."
