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Guidance about the compulsory lessons from age five is published tomorrow The lessons mean pupils will be taught about gay and transgender relationships Parents' rights to remove children from sex education aged 15 is also planned Primary school children from the age of five are to be taught about gay and transgender relationships as part of compulsory lessons. Guidance about the new lessons, which will be rolled out nationally next year, will be published tomorrow. It will also outline plans to withdraw parents' rights to remove their children from sex education aged 15 from 2020. New curriculum will bring an...

A Birmingham assistant head at the centre of a row over lessons on LGBT rights and homophobia has been named in the top 10 shortlist for a global teaching prize. Parkfield Community School assistant head teacher Andrew Moffat is in the running for the $1m (£770,000) prize. He has faced protests from some Muslim parents at the primary school. The shortlist was announced by X-Men actor Hugh Jackman, who said teachers were the "real superheroes". Mr Moffat has run a "No outsiders" project promoting equality and diversity in the school, including lessons about sexual identity and LGBT rights. This angered...