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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Paul McAuley

'Massive progress' but more to do as one in five teachers say they feel uncomfortable teaching LGBT+ issues

New statistics show nearly a fifth of teachers in the UK are uncomfortable discussing LGBT+ topics with their pupils.

An independent poll asked primary and secondary school teachers how comfortable they felt teaching their pupils LGBT+ topics with 17 per cent saying they were uncomfortable.

The research, commissioned by Just Like Us, a LGBT+ young people’s charity, comes 18 years after Section 28 was repealed in England and Wales.

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