Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children

Closed 12 Mar 2024

Opened 19 Dec 2023

Contact

gqcguidance.consultation@education.gov.uk

Overview

The consultation is seeking views on the content of the guidance and whether it will help to support schools and colleges, teachers and leaders to make considered and lawful decisions in relation to children who are questioning their gender and the wider school and college community.

What happens next

The results of the consultation and the department's response will be published on GOV.UK in 2025.

Audiences

  • 16-18 year old students resident at these institutions
  • Academies (including free schools), voluntary aided schools, voluntary controlled schools, foundation schools and community schools
  • Adoptive parents
  • Adult and mental health practitioners
  • Adult education providers
  • All
  • Bodies representing schools and local authorities
  • CAMHS
  • Clinical commissioning groups
  • Community representatives
  • Contractors involved in building schools
  • Designated institutions and 16-19 academies
  • Designated safeguarding leads
  • Directors of children's services
  • Early learning and childcare providers
  • Educational Psychologists
  • Employers
  • Faith bodies
  • Film Industry representatives
  • Fire sector
  • Foster carers
  • Further education colleges
  • Governing bodies and academy trusts
  • Government bodies and departments
  • Governors
  • Headteachers
  • Health visitors
  • Independent specialist colleges
  • Local authorities
  • Parents
  • Principle social workers
  • Pupils
  • School business managers
  • School nurses
  • School support staff
  • SENCOs
  • Service managers
  • Sixth form colleges
  • Social workers
  • Social workers
  • Teachers
  • Team managers
  • Those evaluating programmes for children in need
  • Those involved in underlying theoretical research on abuse and neglect, child development etc
  • Those researching children’s social care or education systems, with links to educational outcomes of Children in Need
  • Training providers
  • Unions and representative organisations
  • Universities
  • Virtual school heads
  • Volunteers
  • Young people

Interests

  • Education