Education for All

Best practice guides

Education for All - Cornerstone Document (2005)

Introducing the Education for All campaign, this gives an overview of how and why we should tackle the issue of homophobic bullying in schools.

Education for All in English

English version of Education for All in word

Education for All in Welsh

Welsh version of Education for All in word

Stand up for us (2004)

Produced by the National Healthy School Standard, this resource aims to help schools develop their awareness of homophobia and homophobic bullying and challenge it in the context of a whole-school approach.
Stand up for us

In conjunction with this guide there are 10 useful online resources at www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk/standupforus

Safe for All (2001)

Stonewall's best practice guide for preventing homophobic bullying in secondary schools.
Safe for All

Equal at School (2005)

A Stonewall fact sheet that includes a summary of the legal framework surrounding lesbian, gay and bisexual issues in schools.
Equality at school

Don't Suffer in Silence (2002)

The Department for Education and Skills' practical anti-bullying pack aimed at pupils, their families and teachers.
www.dfes.gov.uk/bullying

Different in more ways than one (2004)

A manual for teachers and counsellors, funded by the EU, to better understand lesbian, gay and bisexual young people and tackle homophobia in their work. It can be downloaded from www.diversity-in-europe.org.

Challenging homophobia (2005)

A programme produced by Teachers TV on the issue of homophobic bullying, focussing on Turton High School Media Arts College in Bolton. The college has introduced the subject of homophobic bullying into its PSHE syllabus for Year 9 pupils and has produced the "Living It" campaign in conjunction with Bolton Public Health.

This programme follows a Year 9 lesson which involves activities to help children challenge attitudes about sexuality and also focuses on an INSET session with a representative of the Schools Out organisation.

Accounts from staff and pupils who have experienced homophobic bullying first hand, illustrating the destructive effect such victimisation is having on pupils and staff in British schools.

To see a video of the programme click here.

More information about TeachersTV's work on homophobic bullying is available from the Teachers TV website.

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QCA SRE curriculum schemes for Key Stage 4

Secondary schools must provide Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) at key stage 4. The Secretary of State for Education and Employment has issued a guidance framework to support schools in providing effective SRE.