Initially called The Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic Challenge Fund, the programme launched in 2014 for staff, parents and students to receive free training and workshops to stamp out homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying.
Although training to continue, as it has done over the past six years, the BBC have learned that Boris Johnson’s conservative government pulled funding earlier this year.
The Government Equalities Office said: “The anti-bullying grant fund, which provided 2,250 schools across the country with materials and training, was always due to end in March 2020.” The news arrives shortly after a tweet from the Department for Education, in which they wrote: “No child should have to experience bullying, in or out of