Transgender students: What?s in the new school guidance?

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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today we look at the transgender guidance for schools released by the Department of Education.

The guidance focuses on a number of areas including the role of parents in social transitioning, single sex spaces and fairness in sport. The BBC?s education Branwen Jeffreys and the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, Geoff Barton join Adam to breakdown what this guidance means for pupils, parents and teachers.

And a volcano on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland has erupted causing almost 4000 people to evacuate the local town. Volcanologist at the University of East Anglia, Professor Jenni Barclay explains what?s happening. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It?s presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack MacLaren with Sam McLaren and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Jack Graysmark. The senior news editors are Jonathan Aspinwall and Sam Bonham.

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0:12.1	On Monday night, it was the Downing Street Christmas party for journalists.
0:16.6	Not invited.
0:18.6	And Rishi Sunak said to journalists that the general election, or at least he
0:23.7	pretty much strongly hinted that the general election will be next year. In other words,
0:30.7	he's not going to go super, super, super long and leave it to the absolute last second and have a vote
0:36.6	in the middle of January 2025.
0:40.7	Although as some people pointed out, maybe he was just referring to the local elections,
0:45.2	which are due to happen in May anyway, and that no one's speculating about the timing of.
0:50.5	Also, I just think politicians sometimes say things and then events get in the way and it ends up being different.
0:57.4	Anyway, lots of events are going to be covered on this episode of Newscast.
1:01.2	Newscast from the BBC.
1:03.4	Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages.
1:06.3	Do you have any questions on things that are not related to maths?
1:08.3	People who say that we were partying simply do not know
1:11.6	what they are talking about. The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.
1:17.7	It's the first time ever I've been able to say, well done, Keir. I'll end by tempting her to
1:23.1	update newscast and update this house. The Prime Minister is not under a desk.
1:29.3	Hello, it's Adam in the studio.
1:31.1	And later in this episode, we will be virtually traveling to Iceland to see the volcano
1:36.2	that has very dramatically, but quite unusually, for a volcano, erupted.
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