LGBT plan for faith schools released
by Adam Becket, Church Times:
A TEN-POINT plan to help children deal with LGBT issues at faith schools has been released as part of a report into the LGBT charity Educate and Celebrate.
The study, written by Dr Anna Carlile, a researcher in the Department of Education at Goldsmiths, University of London, collected interview and focus-group data from five representative schools where Educate and Celebrate had worked.
Educate and Celebrate works with faith schools and schools that serve faith communities to help them understand the LGBT community. Their ten-step process is: first, to “begin with a one-off anti-bullying assembly, which builds staff confidence”; and, second, to “embed the Educate and Celebrate materials across the curriculum and within the school environment, with full usualising achieved by the end of the school year”.
It continues: “3. Build on existing pastoral care expertise to support their LGBT+ students to come out and be themselves at school. 4. Engage with parents at the school gate through explaining the universal application of the Equality Act 2010, including in relation to religion and by appealing to parents’ religious commitment to kindness to one’s neighbour.
[…] The report can be downloaded at www.educateandcelebrate.org.
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