LGBT+ inclusive education: Promising Practice Project
The NEU is collating examples of good practice from around the country to evidence the innovative, creative and meaningful work around LGBT+ inclusive education in its Promising Practice Project.
Breaking the Mould
The NEU worked with five primary schools over two years to consider how ‘traditional’ gender stereotypes could be challenged in nursery and primary classrooms.
LGBT+ inclusion: heads, senior leaders, PHSE and safeguarding leads
Relationships education and health education should begin in primary school and be developed and delivered according to children’s developmental age and lived experiences.
LGBT+ networks and activism
The NEU has active LGBT+ educators’ networks across the country ensuring the voices of LGBT+ educators are heard and creating pathways to activism and leadership.
LGBT+ inclusion: councillors, local authorities and community leaders
Councillors are a bridge between the community and the local authority. The local authority can take a lead in developing a borough/region-wide approach to LGBT+ inclusion in education.
Relationships and sex education (RSE)
Changes to Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSE) are vital to support the social and emotional development of children and young people.
Statement in support of inclusive Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)
As teachers and educators, we stand in support of our colleagues around the country who are working to make our schools and colleges more inclusive and who are celebrating LGBT+ diversity.
LGBT+ equality
LGBT+ education professionals, pupils and families are vital members of all nursery, school and college communities and of our union.
Advice
LGBT+ inclusion: school governors/trustees
As a school governor / trustee, you are responsible for ensuring the school’s practices are consistent with its values and ethos, even where these may be different to your own.
LGBT+ inclusion: reps and officers
Every school and district should be having a conversation about LGBT+ inclusion.
LGBT+ inclusion: LGBT+ members
It is often the most unpleasant voices that we hear the loudest and whether you are out at work or not, it can be extremely isolating being a lone LGBT+ staff member.
LGBT+ inclusion: members
LGBT+ inclusion involves reviewing the curriculum and lesson plans across all subjects to eliminate heteronormative bias, and ensure sexual orientations and gender identities are represented.
RSE - guidance for members in England
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) will be changing for schools in England from September 2020.
Sexual orientation harassment
Who is protected from harassment on grounds of sexual orientation, and the first steps you should take if you think you have been harassed at work.
Sexual orientation discrimination
Who is protected from sexual orientation discrimination, and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
Supporting trans and gender questioning students
In the last few years there has been much work done, raising awareness and increasing the visibility of transgender issues. This advice aims to helps school and college staff support gender variant or questioning students in the educational environment.
Trans educators toolkit
The NEU Trans Equality Toolkit provides information for education staff on transitioning in school/college.
Blog
Trans-inclusive education conference: Liverpool
Roz Morton, NEU LGBT+ Organising Forum representative, describes how she worked with her local community to organise a successful trans-inclusive education conference.
Building LGBT+ inclusive environments through reading
This LGBT+ history month, the NEU is promoting our recent publication Every Child Every Family, supporting educators to promote equality through reading.
LGBT+ inclusion update
The NEU is committed to supporting LGBT+ inclusion in education. Here is a summary of LGBT events in 2019 and issues the NEU has been involved in.
Inclusion not exclusion: defending LGBT+ inclusive education
To mark International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHoBiT), the National Education Union (NEU) is launching its Pride season campaign.
NEU LGBT+ Black educators stand in solidarity with Caster Semenya
Black women in the UK are less likely to take part in sport than their white counterparts. Camille Kumar, NEU LGBT+ and race equality policy specialist, looks into why Caster Semenya's case is so important.
Lesbian visibility day is important for all educators
On 26 April Lesbian visibility day, an international awareness day celebrating the contribution of lesbians to society, educators of all sexualities across disciplines and in all educational settings, have an opportunity to celebrate this day to advance equality in their community.
Gender Recognition Act: why it needs to change
The Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) governs how trans people can have their identity legally recognised. This was at the time a big step forward – but it’s now really out of date.
Press release
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Today is an important day which draws attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by LGBT+ people around the world and here at home.
PSHE, RSE and LGBT+ Inclusive Education
We can't work towards equality in society or tackle discrimination in workplaces unless we talk positively about LGBT+ people across the curriculum.
Pride in Our Union
We've got to assert that homophobic and transphobic discrimination doesn't go unnoticed or unchallenged.
Liz Truss and the Gender Recognition Act
The National Education Union is deeply concerned by the recent comments made by the Women and Equalities Minister Liz Truss which have caused unnecessary distress and anxiety for trans and non-binary workers.
LGBT+ Rights
Commenting on the passing of an urgency motion on LGBT+ rights at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said: “It is crucial that every young person can feel happy and safe at school but too many LGBT+ young people still don't feel they can be themselves at school.
Publication
Every Child, Every Family
Building LGBT+ inclusion through reading. Part of the Union’s Breaking the Mould series of resources, for nursery and primary phase teachers to think about books to use in the classroom.