[2025] UKUT 308 (AAC)

None of the Appellants’ grounds of appeal are made out and this appeal is therefore dismissed. I should point out that I have not decided that parents have no right to see relevant sex education teaching materials. All I have decided is that the First-tier Tribunal, in the light of the circumstances of the case before it and, in particular, the arguments put to it, did not err in law in deciding that the Appellant was not entitled under FOIA to be provided with teaching materials for relevant sex education that, when the information was sought, had already taken place.

Finally, I apologise for the delay in giving this decision. It was not a straightforward case and has resulted in what I think is the longest reasons I have given for a decision in my ten or so years as a judge of the Upper Tribunal. My capacity to deal with the decision has also been impaired by a backlog of work consequent on my absence from duties due to serious injuries sustained in an accident. Nevertheless, the parties have still had to wait too long for this decision and for this I apologise.