The majority (78%) of primary school children across the UK hear homophobic language, according to new research from LGBTQ+ youth charity Just Like Us in conjunction with VotesforSchools. In a survey of 31,875 pupils across the UK, including 4,307 primary school pupils aged 9 to 11, the results showed homophobic language is rife among young […]
Corey DeAngelis, an American anti-LGBTQ+ education, has been exposed on social media for past involvement in gay porn. A frequent Fox News contributor, DeAngelis, who is a self-described “school choice evangelist,” has been accused of hypocrisy online, given his long-standing public stance against LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion. Are you admitting you’ve supported a gay porn […]
Popular LGBTQ+ schools programme, Pride Groups, run by LGBTQ+ youth charity Just Like Us, is being made free to all UK secondary schools, thanks to National Lottery funding. The Pride Groups programme has so far helped 410 secondary schools to set up/run a LGBTQ+ and allies club, making school environments safer for LGBTQ+ pupils who […]
With only 58% of LGBTQ+ pupils feeling safe at school on a daily basis in the past 12 months (Stonewall – 2022 School Report), the seventh edition of the Pride in Education conference on 4 July is to stand as a crucial event in the fight for inclusivity and equality. This year’s conference is partnering […]
The UK government has announced that Relationships, Sex and Health Education curriculum will not be taught to children until the age of nine, a move which Amnesty International has called “dangerous”. The government’s new guidance proposes that children should not be taught sex education under the age of nine and even after this it should […]
Progress has stagnated and teachers are just as uncomfortable discussing LGBTQ+ topics with pupils as they were two years ago, new research of more than 6,000 teachers by Just Like Us, the LGBTQ+ young people’s charity, has found. Fifteen per-cent of teachers across the UK said they felt “not very comfortable” or “completely uncomfortable” discussing […]
In response to “anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric” coming from the Tory Party Conference, LGBTQ+ children’s education company Pop’n’Olly has announced they are donating 300 of its LGBTQ+ children’s books to primary schools in the constituencies of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Olly Pike, CEO and Founder of Pop’n’Olly, said, “When the people in […]
Results released by Brighton & Hove City Council have shown that provisional overall GCSE results in Brighton & Hove are “significantly above the pre-pandemic results of 2019”.
School Diversity Week is a celebration of LGBTQ+ equality and inclusion, celebrated by thousands of primary and secondary schools.
Mental health: What can genderdivergent and neurodivergent folk tell us about their experience in schools and what schools can do to support them? The aim of the present study by University of Southampton is to find out about the school experiences of people who identify as both neurodivergent and genderdivergent and how these experiences impacted […]
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