These denials are becoming a little boring. When I first began investigating this subject, it became clear to me that the Vardy Foundation (& all those associated with it) had a clear agenda to impose their extreme political & religious beliefs on everyone through the countries state educational system.
The implementation of this strategy has to be carried out carefully. Because they cannot go ahead & do what their instincts tell them they would like to do (i.e. wipe evolution off the face of the earth), for the following reasons:
(1) It would conflict with the curriculum, which requires the teaching of evolution & (as the government keep pointing out) says nothing about teaching creationism. (2) It would provoke an outcry.
Therefore, their first step in sanitizing their lunacy was to claim that they just wanted to teach both sides of the creation/evolution debate. However, they have now gone even further & they are claiming that they do not teach creationism at all in science lessons.
This is completely beside the point; they have only toned down their views because it has created a lot of bad publicity.
Technically, yes, they are not officially teaching creationism in science classes. However, in practice, they are promoting their own personal creationist views, have bragged about settling a score with big-bad immoral secular evolutionism & have taken over state schools & filled them with fundamentalist teachers such as McQuoid, Layfied & others. They have also filled the school with religious symbols (even going as far as renaming the schools) & banned Harry Potter books. They preach in RE & assembly, threaten the kids with hell-fire & teach very negative views on homosexuality & other types of relationships that they don’t like.
Therefore, although strictly speaking they are not teaching creationism in science classes, their fundamentalist influence pervades every aspect of the school: always there but held back to a degree by the need not to raise attention too much; nevertheless looking for every opportunity to push things just that little bit further.
Take Rod Liddle’s recent program: he interviewed two former pupils of Emmanuel College in which they clearly stated that although the teacher was strictly teaching the principles of evolution, he was also clearly articulating to the pupils his belief that they were wrong (“but you do not say that in an exam”).
I am not sure how you would describe this; you could call it, “contra-teaching”. “The curriculum states that the world is round, but do you know boys & girls, I believe it is flat.”
And if anyone complains about any of this, all they get back is the standard denial, which often includes the, “teach the controversy” confusion surrounding the misrepresentation of the key stage 4 science curriculum (repeated almost word for word, statements made by the creationists)