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Written question asked by Nicholas Dakin (Labour) on Wednesday, 15 July 2015, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 20 July 2015. It was answered by Edward Timpson (Conservative) on Tuesday, 21 July 2015 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Pupils: Bullying

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how much funding her Department has provided to further education and sixth form colleges since 2010 to support them in tackling homophobic and transphobic bullying.

Answer

The Department for Education does not allocate monies to further education and sixth form colleges specifically to tackle homophobic and transphobic bullying. Institutions are expected to manage these issues as part of their duty of care to their students. They may use a portion of their revenue funding to do so as they see fit. However, the Department funds a range of other activities and initiatives, such as changes to teacher training, to confront this issue.

The Government has awarded £2million to eight charities in 2015/16 to provide specialist support and training for thousands of teachers to combat homophobic, transphobic and biphobic (HBT) bullying in primary and secondary schools. This is on top of £1.3 million given to various anti-bullying charities to combat all forms of bullying in schools. The Department also provided £4 million to charities to tackle bullying in schools in 2013-15.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
7381
Session
2015-16
Subjects
Bullying Finance Further education Pupils Sixth form education
Link
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