Anti-Homophobic Bullying Guidance 

Preventing and tackling homophobic bullying in schools

This resource provides school governors, heads, teachers and other school staff with practical information such as how to challenge homophobic language, how to respond to physical bullying, how to work with bullies and how to respond to a young person coming out.

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• What does homophobic bullying look like? 
• The role of governors in preventing homophobic bullying 
• The School Evaluation Form and homophobic bullying
• Raising awareness about homophobic bullying in the school community 
• Developing policies, practices and procedures
• Developing the curriculum to prevent homophobic bullying
• Steps for staff development
• Making pupil support systems inclusive
• Working with pupils who bully
• Working with parents and carers
• Schools with a religious character and homophobic bullying
• How to talk to pupils about homophobic language
• Promoting positive messages about different families
• How to support lesbian, gay and bisexual pupils
• Coming-out stories
• Responding to verbal incidents in primary school
• Responding to verbal incidents in secondary school
• Responding to physical homophobic bullying
• School-evaluation form for heads
• Ideas about how to discuss homophobic bullying in secondary schools
• Key Stage 1
• Key Stage 2
• Key Stage 3
• Key Stage 4 and 16+
• Holding bullies to account
• Supporting those harmed by bullying
• The experiences of girls
• The experiences of boys
• Summary-addressing homophobic bullying in your school 
  
  
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