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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Sally Weale Education correspondent

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

A Trans+ Pride march in London in 2022
A Trans+ Pride march in London in 2022. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty Images

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.

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