Ed Balls denies charity conviction schools opt-out from sex preparation manners Politics

A clergyman giving a sex preparation doctrine to pupils at Ivy Bank propagandize in Burnley. Photograph: Don McPhee

Ed Balls currently denied charity conviction schools an opt-out from new manners forcing teachers to residence issues such as homosexual equivalence and contraception in sex preparation lessons.

The schools cabinet member pronounced that a check being debated by MPs after currently would deliver an "overdue and in advance change" and that a argumentative legislative addition tabled by the supervision progressing this month would not "water down" the plans.

The children, schools and family groups bill, that completes the thoroughfare by the Commons today, will need state schools in England to learn pupils about contraception and the significance of fast relationships, together with polite partnerships, and it will dissuade the graduation of homophobia.

But an legislative addition tabled by Balls will concede conviction schools to learn such issues in a approach that reflects their eremite character.

Today the Liberal Democrats" schools spokesman, David Laws, indicted ministers of being in a "terrific muddle" over the issue, arguing that this last-minute shift "completely undermines the objectives of this piece of the bill".

The legislative addition would concede conviction schools to evasion mandate to foster equivalence and apply oneself for farrago in a approach that a little people would cruise intolerant, he said.

Laws told Today on BBC Radio 4: "The issue is, in the 21st century, are we going to have a propagandize complement that is going to be passive of dogmatism in the name of eremite freedom? Or should we contend in the 21st century that it is right that all state-funded schools should be training toleration and apply oneself for diversity?

"After all, there are already opt-outs for relatives and there is already the wider requisite to learn in propinquity to the eremite and informative credentials of pupils."

But, in a successive talk on the same programme, Balls insisted that Laws was wrong.

"There"s no watering down of what is essentially an owing and in advance change. There"s no opt-out for any conviction propagandize from training the full, broad, offset curriculum on sex education," Balls said.

Balls pronounced that, underneath the stream system, conviction schools could select not to learn young kids anything about contraception, termination or homosexuality. "Or you could select usually to learn young kids that homosexuality is wrong or contraception is wrong," he said.

But in destiny schools would have to insist these issues to their pupils, he said. "They contingency learn young kids a offset curriculum that promotes equivalence and accepts diversity," he said.