It was interesting to see the development of the reintroduction of Section 28 story yesterday. Those of you who got all of my updates will know that it has been traced back to a consultancy called Place Group who provided boilerplate policies for a number of schools. It now appears that policies incorporating the “no promotion of homosexuality” clause have been adopted by at least eight schools. It isn’t clear whether they did so unthinkingly, or whether they checked what Place had given them and approved it.

Via the gay activist, Patrick Strudwick, I also found this blog post by a teacher which references existing government guidelines on sex education, in particular this document which talks in several places about the concept that “promotion of sexual orientation […] is inappropriate teaching”. I’m fairly relaxed about that, because what it seems to say is that teachers should not favor one orientation over another. On the other hand, it was published in 2000, when Section 28 was still in force, so people might argue for other interpretations.

My friend Mary Milton, the producer of Shout Out, is now on the case, and I understand that there will be a feature on this in Thursday’s show. I’ll be in Zagreb, but I look forward to catching up with the show on podcast.