Description

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This vital teachers' guide to challenging homophobic and biphobic bullying offers unique insights to address the issue at its core. With a renewed focus on a whole school approach, it builds capacity in those who work with young people and inspires an inclusive approach in every setting. Laying out clear advice on how to recognise, stop and prevent homophobic and biphobic bullying, readers are given strategies to work with its perpetrators, bystanders and targets. The author explains how to handle disclosures regarding sexual orientation and provides advice on effective Anti-Bullying Policy referencing homophobic and biphobic bullying. Based upon the work of the UK's leading and award-winning LGBT+ anti-bullying charity Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH) this book additionally explores why young people are too often reluctant to report these forms of bullying; the increasing role of the online environment and the profound impacts bullying can have well into adulthood. Written by an expert in this field, this essential guide is for teachers, youth workers, the care sector and anyone with a duty of care towards young people.

About the Author

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Jonathan Charlesworth is Executive Director of the multi-award-winning charity EACH - Educational Action Challenging Homophobia - with over 30 years' experience in consultancy, training delivery and resources on homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying. In 2019 he co-developed Wales's statutory anti-bullying guidance for its Government's schools and is the writer of national guidances to schools for the Department for Education. EACH is a registered charity working closely with the Health, Crown Prosecution, Police and Education Services. It was voted Charity of the Year 2018-19 by the Ben Cohen Stand Up Foundation