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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Catherine Lough

Derogatory language and homophobic bullying ‘common’ in top academy chain school

PA Wire

A school that is part of one of the country’s leading academy chains has been given a termination warning notice to close amid reports of homophobic bullying and derogatory language.

The Department for Education handed a warning notice to Ark Kings Academy in Birmingham after a recent Ofsted inspection found that secondary pupils did not feel safe, while “bullying, derogatory language and homophobic behaviours are commonplace”.

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