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Booklet: navigating contemporary parenting challenges We’re excited to announce that over the next year, we will be launching 13 innovative toolkits designed to educate, support, guide, and empower Muslim parents as they navigate various challenges. In anticipation of these resources, we’ve created a comprehensive 34-page booklet that offers a preview of the topics that will be covered in greater detail.   Download your copy below. If you donate at least £10 to Muslim Family Initiative, we’ll send you a few complimentary copies of this booklet as a thank you for your support. After donating, please complete the form below

back to school course Now your children are back at school, they will be sitting in Relationships and Sex Education lessons.   Most schools will be: teaching the names of sexual body parts (penis, vagina, vulva) in year 1 or year 2 teaching sex education lessons in year 4, 5 and 6. normalising same-sex family structures to young children.   Although you can’t change everything, there’s a lot you can do.   These sessions will focus on the actions you can take which will have the most significant impact on changing what your children are taught.   What you’ll get:

PROUD MUSLIM RESOURCE UPDATED AND EXPANDED Last year we published the Raising Proud Muslims, Not Pride Muslims resource.    It was downloaded over 12,000 times and reached as far afield as South Africa and North America.   It contains a mixture of information for parents to navigate ‘LGBTQ’ in and out of Pride Month, as well as activities you can do with your children.   We have added two new sections and corrected some minor mistakes in the last edition.   It is free to download and share.   Please consider donating so we can produce more

HELP GET CHANGES TO RSE ON THE POLITICAL AGENDA Today we launch the Could Do Better Campaign to advocate for changes to RSE/’LGBT’ teaching to future MPs.   Parents have a huge amount of concerns about the way RSE is being implemented by schools.    Whilst we have sought to empower parents to to work with schools, we’re seeing a huge number of problems.   These are looked into in great detail in our landmark report, ‘Could Do Better‘.   We need to ensure that the unprecedented intake of new MPs hear your concerns.   That is

RESPOND TO THE RSE CONSULTATION Protect Your Children in Schools: Respond to the RSE Guidance Consultation The government has updated the statutory guidance that outlines  what your children learn in Relationships and Sex Education lessons in schools. The previous version was unclear, contradictory, and confusing. The section on ‘Sexual Orientation’ implied that primary schools must teach children about families with two Dads or two Mums. There were no minimum ages for teaching sexual content in primary schools, and the RSE policies allowed schools to publish documents so sparse they were essentially meaningless. The new guidance introduces some

Not quite dinner table talk: tackling RSE in Muslim homes Avoiding awkward conversations and eye contact can’t go on much longer.   There is a pressing need to open up avenues of conversations around RSE (relationships and sex education) within Muslim homes.   Society is becoming increasingly lewd and our children are exposed to a plethora of hyper-sexualised content from infancy, putting them at risk of adopting liberal values and a moral code shaped by secular influences.   Research has shown that children in the UK are coming across pornography online from as young as seven years