The new “Yavan”: England is about to pass a law making Yeshiva education almost impossible. Will many Yidden be forced to flee the UK? Please sign this petition to members of Parliament!
Their underhanded tactics to destroy chinuch are reminiscent of our history throughout the ages. Nothing has changed in Amalek’s war against HKB”H and Klal Yisroel.
BS”D
🛑 There is currently an extremely dangerous new law, the “Schools Bill,” which is close to final passage in England. The Bill would completely remove parents’ control over their children’s education. The proposed Bill is a direct threat to the continuation of Torah-true life in the UK and to parental rights. It seriously undermines our freedom to educate our children according to our sacred Torah traditions.
This new law being rushed through will hand over full control of your children’s education to the government, stripping parents of their rights, threatening yeshiva education, and changing the future of Torah chinuch in England.
Wickedly framed as a “protection” for children, the Bill’s actual goal is indoctrinate young people with immoral values and to break apart families. This Bill is the drastic next step in their decades of socialist, anti-G-d scheming, and would have a devastating impact on frum families in Britain - and on any family with traditional religious values. Rav Avrohom Gurwitz Shlita noted that if the bill, chas veshalom, would pass, Jewish families with school age children may have no option but to move abroad - and he hopes that they will have the necessary fortitude to do so!
Why might every frum family with school aged children need to flee the UK? Because - as those who understand the bill properly realize - this law will not only curb parents’ home-education rights, as it seems on its face, but it will jeopardize all yeshiva education, by the start of the coming school year, for children and teens. This is because every parent will be obligated to ensure their child receives a “suitable education.” Suitable education, in their twisted, Sodom-like agenda, involves every to’eiva imaginable, the “education” of which the government is already enforcing in every non-Jewish school in England.
The Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill is simply an underhanded way of ensuring that every child will now receive all the horrific education about “alternative lifestyles” and more, which their parents are trying to protect them from - and that the government is aggressively seeking to indoctrinate every child with.
LET'S SPELL IT OUT:
• Children may be taught values that go against Torah, including To’eiva and explicit content.
• Torah time will be cut for secular, ideological studies.
• Home schooling will be state-monitored and inspected.
•Yeshivos could be shut for not following state rules.
• Ofsted wants the power to imprison parents who do not comply
If passed, this bill will:
❌ Allow government officials to interfere in private education decisions, including home education.
❌ Grant authorities the power to monitor and regulate how parents educate their own children.
❌ Shift control over children’s upbringing from parents to the state, undermining family autonomy.
❌ Allow intrusive home inspections and unwarranted oversight of family life. Local authorities will be invested with the power to assess the home environment and the content and approach of educational materials used - literally, they would be given power of “life or death” over families. They can declare that a home is too messy, too religious, etc, or that the textbooks the parents choose to use are inadequate. Families will find themselves unfairly judged based on their values which veer from the agenda of the “powers that be.”
This is a direct attack on parental rights.
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What you can do:
1) Please daven with heartfelt sincerity that this gezaira be annulled — so we can continue to raise our children in the pure spirit of Torah.
2) Please, if you live in the UK, sign this declaration of opposition to members of Parliament affirming that you will NOT hand over control of your children’s education!
Under the guidance of Rabbonim, a unified declaration has been prepared.
This declaration expresses, with respect and unity, the deeply held convictions of our community:
Compliance with such a law is impossible for us - like asking a fish to live outside water. It strikes at the very essence of who we are.
We can never surrender control of our children's chinuch.
We cannot remain silent.
🛑You can ONLY sign the petition if you LIVE IN THE UK, so if you don’t, please simply share this article with British friends and relatives and urge them to sign.
Read the text of the declaration and sign here:
https://parentaldeclaration.github.io/ParentalDeclaration/
If you don’t have access, you can read the contents of the declaration below this graphic, and you can sign by texting “I AGREE” to 07463 066 613.
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Text of the declaration:
“To the Department for Education and Members of Parliament and the House of Lords:
I affirm my unwavering belief that every parent - regardless of background - holds the inalienable right and the primary responsibility to guide the moral, religious, and educational upbringing of their children, in accordance with their conscience, values, and cultural or faith-based beliefs. Any attempt by the state to override this sacred duty constitutes a profound infringement on religious liberty, parental autonomy, and the very foundations of family life in this country.
If enacted in its current form, Clauses 30 - 35, and 36 - 42 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would grant the state sweeping powers that are excessive, intrusive, and without proper justification. These provisions would impose burdensome registration, surveillance, and compliance requirements on parents and educational institutions. They would empower local authorities to monitor, interrogate, and potentially override the educational choices of families - even where there is no evidence of harm or neglect.
As a UK resident, and a committed supporter of family and educational freedoms, I am deeply troubled that this Bill disregards the flexible, values-based nature of faith and independent education. It imposes uniform secular standards that are incompatible with many religious traditions, and risks criminalising parents or educators who cannot, in good conscience, conform. In doing so, the Bill poses a direct threat to the freedom of families to raise children in accordance with their deeply held beliefs - a responsibility I consider a matter not only of conscience, but of moral and spiritual obligation.
The proposed legislation also contravenes several fundamental rights under the Human Rights Act 1998: Article 8, which protects the right to private and family life; Article 9, which protects freedom of religion and belief and Article 2 of Protocol 1, which obliges the state to respect parents’ rights in education. In addition, the Bill raises serious concerns under UK Data Protection law, permitting the intrusive collection and monitoring of sensitive educational and personal data without adequate justification or safeguards.
It also violates core principles of British constitutional law, including proportionality, restraint in state interference, and respect for the home as a protected sphere. By enabling state officials to overrule parental judgement and faith-based education - without clear limits, due process, or adequate safeguards - the Bill risks replacing trusted civic partnerships with coercive bureaucratic overreach.
I am a committed and law-abiding citizen who respects the rule of law and democratic institutions. However, when the legislative process produces measures that threaten the liberty and dignity of family life, conscience demands that I raise my voice. I therefore declare my principled and respectful opposition to this Bill in its current form. It is with a heavy heart that I say: if this Bill becomes law as drafted, I do not see how, in good conscience, I could comply with its demands. This is not a matter of personal convenience. It is a matter of identity - of who we are, and who we have the right to be as parents and people of faith. No community can survive without the ability to pass on its values and beliefs to the next generation.
I therefore urge His Majesty’s Government and Parliament to amend this Bill. As currently drafted, it undermines the long-established principle in British constitutional and common law that parents - not the state - bear primary responsibility for the moral and educational upbringing of their children. No democratic legislature can enact measures that violate this foundational tenet without risking serious conflict with the principles of proportionality, legitimate aim, and respect for private and family life, upon which its legal authority is contingent.”
Please sign, and stand on the side of Hashem! Now is the time to demonstrate unitedly that we will not stand by silently as others try to shape our children's future.
https://parentaldeclaration.github.io/ParentalDeclaration/
If you would have lived in the times of the Chashmonaim, would you have been brave enough to fight for HKB”H? Now is our chance to prove ourselves.
Please read on for very important background information, and more about the proposed Bill:
To understand that horrors that the government is planning to ruin our children’s lives with, here is some background information about what’s being already being forcibly taught to children today in the UK, over the objections of parents who fought against it:
The Welsh High Court ruled on December 22, 2022 that the Welsh Government’s controversial plans to force LGBTQ+ teaching on all children from the age of 3 upwards is lawful and does not conflict with parental rights.
The controversial proposals were opposed by 90% of parents in the Welsh Government’s consultation.
Kim Isherwood, one of the claimants and the spokesperson for the campaign said:
“We asked the High Court to recognise the overreach of power by the government, we asked the court to help us protect our children from future emotional, physical, and psychological harm. The evidence we provided to the court referenced and highlighted concerning levels of betrayal, deceit and false claims made by the government, but it appears as though the judge agrees with them - not only do we parents not have rights, but they were never there to begin with.”
Of course, this isn’t only in Wales. The government of England is making sure that every pupil, everywhere in the country, is given this “education.” Readers are likely aware that this is actually a global agenda, with the US and other places facing very similar threats. Passage of the Schools Bill in the UK would have a ripple effect, setting precedent and hurting Klal Yisrael worldwide.
🕯️Take your place among the defenders of Torah Chinuch.
🕯️In a generation tested by silence, it is those who speak who help bring salvation.
🕯️Every Jewish adult bears this responsibility.
🕯️This is not a "school matter." It is not for askanim alone.
🕯️This is about your children. Your grandchildren.
🕯️Declare your opposition to interference in Jewish education by signing the declaration form via this link:
https://parentaldeclaration.github.io/ParentalDeclaration/
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More About the Harms that Will Be Caused by the Bill
The following is from the site “Parent Power.”
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill has not received anything like the degree of public scrutiny it warrants. While the Bill contains some welcome provisions, such as an increased focus on kinship care in the children’s social care system, taken as a whole the Bill represents a radical assertion of the rights of the State over those of parents, under the pretext of safeguarding vulnerable children. If the Bill passes, local authorities, and not parents, will decide whether home education is in the best interests of children.
The responsibility of parents for the education of their children, and the attendant rights of parents to make choices about their children’s education, have long been recognized in UK law. This principle is presently enshrined in Section 9 of the Education Act 1996. Sections 24-26 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill undermine the legal embodiment of this principle, and so undermine the parent-child relationship. (Update: the Sections refered to as “24-26” were in the Bill as originally published, but now as the Bill currently stands as it left the Commons, they are actually Sections 30-35.)
Section 24 makes it illegal for the parents of children in special schools, or even simply with an EHC (Education and Health Care) plan in place, to withdraw their children from school without the consent of the local authority. This provision ensures that the decision about whether or not withdrawal from school is in the child’s best interests is made by the local authority, and not the parents. In this case the state, and not the parents, will decide what is best for the child, and parents will be forced to comply with its decisions.
Section 24 also prevents parents under investigation by social services from withdrawing their child from school without the permission of the local authority. Parents may attract the attention of social services for a range of reasons, including malicious referrals from ex-partners or estranged family members, or school staff who disagree with a family’s religious beliefs. There is no evidential threshold for an investigation by social services, with only a tiny proportion of investigations resulting in any further action. This means that any sufficiently motivated person who disagrees with a parent’s decision to withdraw a child from school could force the decision out of the parent’s hands by making a malicious referral to social services.
Section 25 introduces a compulsory register for children not in school, requiring parents to register as home educators, and provide the local authority with details of every individual their children receive education from during the week. Parents even have to declare how many hours each week they spend teaching their children. Under current law, local authorities already have a duty to ensure that children receive a ‘suitable and efficient’ education, and many maintain registers of home educated children — albeit parents are not mandated to register their information. In addition to being burdensome on both local authorities and parents, section 25 ensures that UK law reflects and perpetuates the Government’s view that parents cannot be trusted to keep their children safe.
Section 26 introduces a new system for administering ‘school attendance orders’ (SAOs). Local authorities will be able to issue a ‘Preliminary SAO’ for any of the following reasons: a) the local authority decides that a child is not receiving a suitable education, b) there is any social services involvement (including an initial investigation), c) the local authority decides that it is in the child’s best interests to be in school, and d) the parent has not provided timely or sufficient information to the local authority.
The local authority is then empowered by Section 26 to issue a ‘School Attendance Order’, where conditions a, c, or d are cited, if the local authority judges that the parents have failed to show that they are providing a suitable education. Where condition b is cited, the local authority can issue a SAO if they deem it to be in the child’s best interests. Additionally, the local authority will be able to issue a SAO if ‘in the opinion of the authority it is expedient that the child should attend school.’ The implications of these provisions are painfully clear – it is local authorities, and not parents, who have the legal right to decide whether a child can be home educated or not.
In addition, under Section 26, parents served with a Preliminary SAO must comply with a home visit to inspect their premises and interview their children. Refusal to comply with an inspection may result in an SAO being issued. The premises must be ‘suitable’, a term which is left undefined. Might a home be deemed unsuitable if it is too small, too messy, or even too religious? Section 26 gives the Local Authority the right to force parents to send their children to school under a virtually unlimited variety of pretexts.
While the spin from the Government is that only extremely vulnerable or abused children will be forced into school, the legal right of parents to home educate their children will effectively no longer exist if the Bill passes in its current form. The state, and not parents, will have the right to decide what is best for children. Regrettably, much of the discussion about the Bill focusses on what the Bill is for, and not what it actually does. The Government claims that the Bill is for safeguarding vulnerable children, but what it does is strip parents of the right to make basic decisions about their child’s education and claim those rights for the state.
For Further Information:
The following article, published in January on a British-based substack called Conscientious Currency, gives an excellent explanation of why the government narrative about the bill being to “protect children,” is patently false.
