The Scottish Executive has announced the membership of the group set up to review what pupils can be taught about homosexuality.

The group is part of the package of "safeguards" being put forward by the executive in an attempt to appease critics of the plan to repeal Section 28.

Its membership includes representatives of parents, churches and teachers.

Education Minister Sam Galbraith said: "The working group will look at the whole range of curriculum material dealing with sex education and consider whether this provides appropriate advice to schools and teachers in the light of the legitimate concerns of the public, parents and teachers."

Full membership

Its findings will be given to MSPs before a final vote is taken on the Ethical Standards in Public Life Bill.

Mr Galbraith said the group would consult on any new material proposed and until this has been concluded, the legislation would not be repealed.

The membership of the group is:

• Mike McCabe (chairman), director of education, South Ayrshire

• John O'Keane, head teacher of Cardinal Newman High School, North Lanarkshire

• Anne Pearson, head teacher of Park Primary School, Alloa, Clackmannanshire

• Gill Mackay, senior teacher at Dunard Primary School, Glasgow

• Jack Waddell, vice-chair of Williamwood High School School Board, East Renfrewshire representing the Scottish School Board Association

• Kim Connolly, a director of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council

• Rev. John Laidlaw, convener of the Church of Scotland Education Committee

• John Oates, representing the Catholic Education Commission

• Rowena Arshad, director of the Centre for Education in Racial Equality in Scotland.