England’s schools must be involved in new transgender guidance, union warns

National Education Union says too many LGBTQ+ young people still find school a negative experience

Schools in England must be involved “properly” in developing new transgender guidance that needs to work alongside their existing safeguarding duties, the UK’s largest education union has warned.

As the government prepares to publish its first draft of the long-awaited guidance, the National Education Union (NEU) said many LGBTQ+ young people still found school a negative experience.