FOI Request - Complaints on Content of Sex Education in Schools
Request 101003714502
1. Please provide figures for the number of complaints received by Moray Council relating to the content of all aspects of sex education in schools;
Please provide those figures for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, or the most recent three academic years if easier;
Please indicate a breakdown of complaints between primary and secondary school teaching.
2. For the same years and broken down in the same way, could you please advise as to how many requests to excuse children from sex education lessons have been received from parents or carers?
Response 04-03-2025
| Primary Schools | Complaints Received | Pupils Withdrawn from Sex Education Lessons |
| 2022/23 | <5* | 10 |
| 2023/24 | <5* | 20 |
| 2024/25 | <5* | 24 |
*the low numbers associated with this response may result in the identification of individuals. Therefore numbers between 1 and 5 have
been redacted and marked with <5 instead. This response is exempt under Section 38(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - personal
information.
No complaints or requests to remove pupils from sex education lessons were received by secondary schools.