Scotish Deputy First Minister John Swinney announced that Scotland is to become the first country in the world to have LGBT-inclusive education embedded throughout the curriculum.
Over the last 18 months, Stonewall Scotland has been part of the Scottish Government’s LGBT Inclusive Education Working Group, which was established to improve the school experience for LGBT young people and address bullying and discrimination.
The Scottish Government has accepted all 33 of the Working Group’s recommendations in full and intends to implement these reforms to practice and guidance, professional learning, inspections, and the recording of bullying incidents by 2021.
This is a culmination of the hard work of teachers, young people, parents and organisations such as LGBT Youth Scotland, Time for Inclusive Education (TIE), and Stonewall Scotland, who have campaigned for inclusive education for many years.
Stonewall Scotland will continue to work with the Scottish Government, Education Scotland and organisations such as Time for Inclusive Education and LGBT Youth Scotland on the implementation of these reforms which will transform the experience of LGBT young people in all Scottish schools for the better.
This is a great milestone for the Scotish LGBT community, congrats!!!
Scotish Parliament legalized same-sex marriage
on February 2014
on February 2014
