The UK’s Conservative government has quietly cut £4million of crucial funding to LGBT+ anti-bullying programs. The news emerged today just as Boris Johnson agreed to give £16.5billion to defense – far more than military chiefs expected.
The LGBT+ funding cut, which withdraws funding from English schools, comes despite a government pledge to continue to invest in tackling homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying.
Ministers admit LGBT+ kids face particularly high levels of bullying – often causing long-term harm. Indeed, only this week the Department for Education wrote on Twitter: ‘No child should have to experience bullying, in or out of school.’ Meanwhile, a new survey by LGBT+ charity Diversity Role Models indicates that just 27% of